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HOPKINS v. STATE

No. 297, September Term, 1974.

24 Md. App. 53 (1974)

329 A.2d 738

GENE PIERRE HOPKINS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 19, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Durke G. Thompson, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant.

Leroy Handwerger, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Andrew L. Sonner, State's Attorney for Montgomery County, Reginald W. Bours, III, Deputy State's Attorney for Montgomery County, J. James McKenna and William T. Wood, Assistant State's Attorneys for Montgomery County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before ORTH, C.J., and GILBERT and Lowe, JJ.

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

Gene Pierre Hopkins was indicted by the grand jury for Montgomery County on charges of murder, assault with intent to murder, assault with intent to maim, assault and battery, assault and carrying a dangerous weapon. The indictment grew out of a racially based escapade by three young white men who, for a "lark", decided on the night of August 18, 1972 to "raise a little hell...

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