WARD v. STATE

No. 340, September Term, 1975.

30 Md. App. 113 (1976)

351 A.2d 452

JAMES EDWARD WARD v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 29, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph S. Casula, Assigned Public Defender, with whom was Edward P. Camus, District Public Defender on the brief, for appellant.

Michael James Kelly, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, and E. Garrison Neal, Assistant State's Attorney for Prince George's County on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before ORTH, C.J., and MENCHINE and MASON, JJ.


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

At about 1 a.m. on April 28, 1972, Dorothy Mae Ward, estranged wife of the appellant, and one Gerry Godbout were seated in the automobile of the latter, parked outside the wife's apartment. A gunman approached the passenger side of the vehicle and fired five times into the vehicle. Godbout was killed; the estranged wife was not hit. The gunman ran from the scene toward a vehicle that simultaneously had pulled out of...

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