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CRAWFORD v. STATE

[No. 6, September Term, 1979.]

285 Md. 431 (1979)

404 A.2d 244

JEANNIE YVONNE CRAWFORD A/K/A JEANNIE YVONNE PURNELL v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 19, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geraldine Kenney Sweeney, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

William H. Kenety, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Sandra A. O'Connor, State's Attorney for Baltimore County, and Mark Kolman, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, ORTH, COLE and DAVIDSON, JJ.

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

Lillie May Crawford died on 9 May 1978. The cause of death was "[i]ncised wounds of the neck and chest."1 The manner of death was homicide. Jeannie Yvonne Crawford, also known as Jeannie Yvonne Purnell,2 was charged with the homicide. She was tried before a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, convicted of murder...

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