Boone v. State

The appellant, Morton Robert Boone, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County by a jury, presided over by Judge David L. Cahoon, of murder in the second degree and a violation of the handgun law. Because of obviously extenuating circumstances, factually if not legally, the jury gratuitously added to its verdict a recommendation of mercy. The judge sentenced the appellant to a term of ten years for the second-degree murder and then suspended five years of that ten-year sentence, for an effective sentence of five years. This tragic killing arose out of irreconcilable antipathies…