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WEST v. STATE

No. 22, September Term, 1967.

3 Md. App. 123 (1968)

238 A.2d 292

JAMES LESTER WEST v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 14, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris Lee Kaplan, with whom was Michael Lee Kaplan on the brief, for appellant.

Louis E. Schmidt, Special Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Charles E. Moylan, Jr., State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Martin B. Levinson, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ANDERSON, MORTON, ORTH, and THOMPSON, JJ.

PER CURIAM:

The Appellant, James Lester West, was convicted of second degree murder by Judges E. McMaster Duer and William W. Travers, sitting without a jury, in the Circuit Court for Somerset County (the case having been removed from Baltimore City) and was sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment. This was his second trial, his first trial having been set aside on the basis of Schowgurow v. State, 240 Md. 121.

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