COLE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, J., dissent. SMITH, J., filed a dissenting opinion at page 209 infra, in which MURPHY, C.J., concurs.
In this case we are asked to decide whether the Court of Special Appeals erred in concluding that the instructions on permissible verdicts contained plain error material to the rights of the defendant.
Frederick Jerome Hutchinson, defendant, was convicted by a jury in the Criminal...
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