Legal Opinion
Merrick v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided June 20, 1978No. [No. 111, September Term, 1977.]PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtOrth, J.
Levine and Eldridge, JJ., dissent and Levine, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which Eldridge, J., joins at page 20 infra.
On 20 October 1975, Lawrence Maurice Merrick, Joyce Marcine Williamson and Nelson Leroy Boone were jointly indicted by the grand jury for Baltimore County. The indictment presented that on 5 October 1975 they “wilfully and of deliberately premeditatedly malice aforethought” murdered (1st count) and conspired to murder (2nd count) Randolph Alexander Williamson, Jr. (Joyce Marcine Williamson’s husband). The 3rd count of the indictment charged the common law offense of…
2Cases cited82 opinions
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3Cited by25 opinions
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