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BRUCE v. STATE

No. 9, September Term, 1989.

317 Md. 642 (1989)

566 A.2d 103

LEON BRUCE A/K/A ANTHONY BRUCE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 28, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary S. Offutt, Asst. Public Defender, Baltimore, Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender and Kathleen M. Brown, Assigned Public Defender, Towson, on brief, for appellant.

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, on brief, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

The question presented is whether "attempted felony murder" is a crime in this State.

I.

On December 2, 1986, three men entered Barry Tensor's shoe store. One man, later identified as Leon Bruce, was masked and armed with a handgun. He ordered Tensor to open the cash register. One of Bruce's confederates jumped over the counter, and emptied the drawer of its money. Tensor was then ordered to open a second register. Upon finding...

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