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WRIGHT v. STATE

No. 398, September Term, 1975.

32 Md. App. 60 (1976)

359 A.2d 1

MELVIN BRUCE WRIGHT v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 16, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Cannizzaro, Jr., Assigned Public Defender, for appellant.

Bruce C. Spizler, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Bernard Kole, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

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

MASON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. MOYLAN, J., dissents and filed a dissenting opinion at page 65 infra.

The appellant, Melvin Bruce Wright, was convicted by a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of murder in the first degree. He was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment. Neither the corpus delicti nor the criminal agency of the appellant is in dispute. Both are amply supported by the evidence. The appellant's principal assignment of error...

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