Legal Opinion
Brown v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 23, 1969No. 227, September Term, 1968PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
Delone Emerson Brown, the appellant, was convicted of murder in the second degree in a non-jury trial by the Circuit Court for Garrett County. He was sentenced to a term of 16 years. Brown contends that his written confession was erroneously admitted into evidence.
On February 18, 1968, at about 10:50 P.M., State Trooper Robert Lashley received a call to investigate a stabbing in a tavern in Deer Park. When Lashley arrived he found William Paugh lying in the middle of the floor of the tavern. He was dead on arrival at the Garrett County Memorial Hospital as a result of two stab wounds in the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Carnley v. CochranSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- William Lee Miller v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
- Duckett v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1968
- Brown v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1968
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3Cited by26 opinions
- State v. FisherSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1986
- Carolee Biddy v. Fred Diamond, Sheriff, Jackson County Jail, and Jack Reed, Warden, MississippipenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
- Commonwealth v. RigginsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
- State v. McZornSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1975
- Commonwealth v. BennettSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1971
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