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SQUIRE v. STATE

No. 1171, September Term, 1975.

32 Md. App. 307 (1976)

360 A.2d 443

JOHN HENRY SQUIRE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 23, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Allen, with whom was Michael Bowen Mitchell on the brief, for appellant.

Gilbert H. Robinette, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Roy A. Breslow, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before ROBERT C. MURPHY, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, ROBERT E. CLAPP, JR., Associate Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, and ROBERT L. KARWACKI, Associate Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, all specially assigned.

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

The appellant was found guilty by a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of assault with intent to murder and of the unlawful use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence; he was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. He contends on appeal that the lower court, in its jury instructions, erroneously imposed upon him the burden of proving self-defense, thereby...

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