State v. Chaney

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

By indictment filed on August 1, 1977, the Grand Jury for Anne Arundel County charged that Richard Miles Chaney, on December 6, 1971, in said county

“did wilfully and deliberately, with premeditation kill and slay Elizabeth Ann Metzler, contrary to the form of the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided and against the peace, government and dignity of the State (Common Law and Art. 27, Sec. 407-410).”

*24The statutes referred to in the indictment classify various kinds of common law murder as murder in the first degree.

Chaney made no objection before or during his trial…