OWEN, WILLIAM C., Jr., (Retired). Associate Judge.
William Harper, described as a nonviolent person by his friends and his employer who testified at his trial, was convicted of second degree murder. He should not have been, because the State's evidence (1) was legally insufficient to show that the act allegedly causing the victim's death was one which "evinced a depraved mind regardless of human life," and (2) essentially established rather than rebutted Harper's...
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