Parker v. State

Appellant was convicted on May 16, 1967 by a jury in the ■Circuit Court for Wicomico County of first degree murder and robbery. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on the murder ■charge and to a twenty-year term under the robbery conviction, to run consecutively with the life sentence. His primary ■contention on this appeal is that the court erred in instructing the jury on the issue of burden of proof as to appellant’s defense of insanity.

There was evidence adduced at the trial tending to show that at approximately 9:00 p.m. on December 30, 1966, appellant ■entered the grocery store of…