Hall v. State

Bruñe, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The defendant-appellant, Leonard Hall, Jr., was indicted on a charge of murder, was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, and was sentenced to death. He appeals.

He raises four questions (though not in the order here stated) :—(a) whether the trial court erred in admitting into evidence a memorandum of an oral statement by the defendant and thereafter withdrawing it without properly instructing (or informing) the jury as to the ruling; (b) whether oral statements of the defendant were…