STATE v. EVANS

[No. 173, September Term, 1975.]

278 Md. 197 (1976)

362 A.2d 629

STATE OF MARYLAND v. EVANS

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 15, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence W. Sharp and Alexander L. Cummings, Assistant Attorneys General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Deborah K. Handel, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellant.

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

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ.


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

Appellant Evans was charged with murdering Alonzo Counts by stabbing him to death on June 20, 1974.1 Testimony adduced at the trial before a jury established a pattern of angry and violent confrontations between Evans and Counts during the hours immediately preceding the homicide; the confrontations were broken by brief periods when the two men...

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