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SMITH v. STATE

No. 14, September Term, 1975.

31 Md. App. 106 (1976)

355 A.2d 527

JOHN HENRY SMITH v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 12, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen A. Tarrant, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant.

Arrie W. Davis, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Donaldson C. Cole, State's Attorney for Cecil County, Edwin H.W. Harlan, Jr., State's Attorney for Harford County and Peter C. Cobb, Assistant State's Attorney for Harford County on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MOYLAN, DAVIDSON and MASON, JJ.

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

The appellant, John Henry Smith, was tried before a jury in the Circuit Court for Cecil County1 and convicted of two counts of murder and two counts of arson. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for each of the murder counts, the terms to be served concurrently. For the arson counts, he was sentenced to two thirty year terms which were to run concurrently with each other, but consecutively...

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