POE v. STATE

No. 52, Sept. Term, 1995.

671 A.2d 501 (1996)

341 Md. 523

James Allen POE v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Gordon Tayback, Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Annabelle L. Lisic, Assistant Attorney General, (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, on brief), Baltimore, for Respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


CHASANOW, Judge.

The primary issue we are called upon to determine in this case is whether the doctrine of transferred intent applies when a defendant, intending to kill one person, shoots and wounds that person, but the shot passes through the intended victim and kills an unintended victim. We are also asked to decide whether the trial court properly sentenced Petitioner. For the reasons set forth below, we find that the trial court properly applied the doctrine...

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