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EDWARDS v. STATE

[No. 147, October Term, 1950.]

198 Md. 132 (1951)

81 A.2d 631

EDWARDS v. STATE (Two Appeals in One Record)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for reargument denied, and Memorandum thereon filed, October 5, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. McWilliams and Ridgely P. Melvin, Jr., for the appellant.

Robert M. Thomas, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Hall Hammond, Attorney General, Anselm Sodaro, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and James C. Morton, Jr., State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, GRASON, HENDERSON and MARKELL, JJ.

DELAPLAINE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Thomas Alexander Edwards, appellant, a Negro, 23 years old, was indicted by the grand jury of Anne Arundel County for the murders of John H. Mahlan and Mary C. Kline, of Glen Burnie, on September 17, 1948. The cases were removed to the Criminal Court of Baltimore, where he has been tried twice. At the first trial, which was held in February, 1949, he was found guilty of murder in the first degree and was sentenced...

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