POWELL v. STATE

No. 189, September Term, 1972.

16 Md. App. 685 (1973)

299 A.2d 454

JAMES EDWARD POWELL v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 29, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Murphy, Jr., for appellant.

Josef E. Rosenblatt, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney, General, Milton B. Allen, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and James B. Dudley, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before THOMPSON, GILBERT and SCANLAN, JJ.


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

On the evening of April 24, 1970, Baltimore City police officers Donald Sager and Stanley Sierakowski were shot as they were writing reports in their parked squad car. Officer Sierakowski was shot 6 times and survived; Officer Sager died shortly after the attack. James Edward Powell was tried before a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, Judge J. Harold Grady presiding, and convicted of the murder of Officer Sager...

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