MURPHY v. STATE

No. 343, September Term, 1980.

47 Md. App. 387 (1980)

422 A.2d 1297

RAYMOND ARVIL MURPHY v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 12, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted by Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, and Victoria Salner Keating, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Submitted by Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Ann E. Singleton, Assistant Attorney General, Peter C. Cobb, State's Attorney for Harford County, and John L. Dunnigan, Assistant State's Attorney for Harford County, for appellee.

The cause was submitted on briefs to GILBERT, C.J., and THOMPSON and MOYLAN, JJ.


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

In the law of evidence, a line as sharp as a razor's edge may separate evidence which is sufficient from evidence which is insufficient to prove the identity of a criminal defendant. Our task in this case is to hone the edge.

The precise problem of identification now before us had its roots in the events of October 21, 1979, when the appellant was stopped by Deputy J.R. Taylor of the Harford County Sheriff...

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