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EVANS v. STATE

No. 57, September Term, 1975.

28 Md. App. 640 (1975)

349 A.2d 300

EDWARD EVANS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 25, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victoria A. Salner, Assistant Public Defender, with whom were Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, and Dennis M. Henderson, Assistant Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Alexander L. Cummings, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Clifton Gordy, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

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

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

It was but a matter of time before the common law's crazy quilt of murder and manslaughter — eight hundred years in the making and intricately interweaving Stuart modification of Tudor substance with Victorian adaptation of Georgian procedure — would come under the cold glare of latter-day due process. That time came on June 9, 1975, with the Supreme Court's...

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