Powell v. State

CASE SUMMARY

The first count of an indictment filed in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on 19 March 1973 against ROY WILLARD POWELL presented that on 3 March 1973 he . . feloniously, wilfully and of deliberately premeditated malice aforethought did murder one Hattie C. Thurman. ...” 1 Code, Art. 27, § 616. The indictment came on for trial before a jury on 18 October 1973. At the close of all the evidence the court granted a motion for judgment of acquittal as to murder in the first degree. Code, Art. 27, § 593; Maryland Rule 755 b. The case, therefore, as to the major offense, went to the jury…