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ROBINSON v. STATE

[No. 72, September Term, 1967.]

249 Md. 200 (1968)

238 A.2d 875

ROBINSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for rehearing filed March 18, 1968.

Denied April 1, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin Somes Tyng for appellant.

Frank A. DeCosta, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Edwin H.W. Harlan, Jr., State's Attorney for Harford County, and Donald G. Smith, Deputy State's Attorney for Harford County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and BARNES McWILLIAMS, FINAN and SINGLEY, JJ.

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

Because the trial judge sentenced appellant to death he is entitled to have reviewed by this Court, rather than the Court of Special Appeals, his conviction of the crimes of double murder, larceny and assault with intent to rape. Code, Art. 5, § 12 (1967 Cum. Supp.). The recital of what happened makes a gory story, almost as incredible as it is revolting.

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