Legal Opinion
Swain v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided October 9, 1981No. 94, September Term, 1981PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCouch, J.
John Swain was charged by indictment filed November 16,1979, with premeditated murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a felony. He pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity, and elected a jury trial. The trial commenced on July 28, 1980 in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County.
On August 6,1980, the jury found Mr. Swain to have been sane at the time of the offense, and to be guilty of murder in the first degree and use of a handgun in the commission of a felony. He was sentenced to consecutive terms of life imprisonment for murder and five years imprisonment for the…
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