DANNA v. STATE

No. 749, September Term, 1991.

91 Md. App. 443 (1992)

JOYCE DANNA v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

April 28, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rachel Wohl and George E. Burns, Jr., Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Diane E. Keller, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Sandra A. O'Connor, State's Atty. for Baltimore County, Towson, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before ROSALYN B. BELL, FISCHER, and HARRELL, JJ.


HARRELL, Judge.

On 21 September 1978, appellant, Joyce Danna, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County of first-degree murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a felony. For these crimes she received concurrent sentences of life in prison and five years, respectively. On 13 May 1991, appellant was resentenced to life in prison.

In this appeal, appellant presses before us a claim of instructional error, as well as a claim that...

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