MOYLAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
The appellant, Morton Robert Boone, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County by a jury, presided over by Judge David L. Cahoon, of murder in the second degree and a violation of the handgun law. Because of obviously extenuating circumstances, factually if not legally, the jury gratuitously added to its verdict a recommendation of mercy. The judge sentenced the appellant to a term of ten years for the second...
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