Turner v. State

The appellant, Gerald Edward Turner, and Stephen A. Johnson were convicted, in separate trials, of first degree murder. Johnson’s trial was held in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. Turner’s case was removed to the Circuit Court for Howard County, where he was subsequently tried and convicted by a jury. Judge James Mac-gill sentenced him to life imprisonment.

The record indicates that Milton Finkelstein was murdered during the course of being robbed early in the evening of December 22, 1966, just outside his grocery store in Anne Arundel County. At Turner’s trial, John Wesley Pindell,…