JONES v. STATE

No. 26, September Term, 1977.

37 Md. App. 511 (1977)

378 A.2d 9

MELVIN JONES v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geraldine K. Sweeney, Assistant Public Defender, with whom were Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, and Mark Colvin, Assistant Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Deborah K. Handel, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Leonard Eiswert, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MORTON, THOMPSON and POWERS, JJ.


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

In a court trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore before Judge J. Harold Grady, the appellant was found guilty of second degree murder. The court had granted a judgment of acquittal as to first degree murder. Other counts in the indictment were held to have merged into the second degree murder conviction. The court imposed a sentence of 30 years.

On direct appeal this Court affirmed the judgment of conviction...

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