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MEFFORD AND BLACKBURN v. STATE

[No. 238-A, September Term, 1963.] [No. 238-B, September Term, 1963.]

235 Md. 497 (1964)

201 A.2d 824

MEFFORD v. STATE BLACKBURN v. STATE (Two Appeals in One Record)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 7, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Hatem for Frederick Morris Mefford, one of the appellants.

Larry P. Scriggins and E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr., for Earl LeRoy Blackburn, the other appellant.

Loring E. Hawes (in the Mefford Case) and Franklin Goldstein (in the Blackburn Case), Assistant Attorneys General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, and Edwin H.W. Harlan, State's Attorney for Harford County, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before the entire Court.

Decided July 7, 1964. Certiorari denied, 380 U.S. 937.

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

Frederick Morris Mefford and Earl LeRoy Blackburn were indicted jointly by the Harford County Grand Jury for the fatal shooting of a gas station attendant in the course of a robbery. Each was convicted, in separate trials, by Judge Day and Judge Edwin Harlan (of Baltimore, specially assigned), sitting without a jury, of murder in the first degree, robbery...

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