WISE v. STATE

No. 29, September Term, 1969.

8 Md. App. 61 (1969)

258 A.2d 55

JAMES BRANCH WISE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 30, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tucker R. Dearing for appellant.

James L. Bundy, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Richard J. Kinlein, State's Attorney for Howard County, and Alfred T. Truitt, Assistant State's Attorney for Howard County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ANDERSON, MORTON, ORTH, and THOMPSON, JJ.


MORTON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant, James Branch Wise, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Howard County of murder in the first degree (the case having been removed from Wicomico County) and sentenced to life imprisonment.

In this appeal, he contends, generally, that the evidence was legally insufficient to sustain his conviction and, specifically, that the conviction rests...

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