Early v. State

The basic question in this case is whether the judge presiding at the bench trial of Frank Early in the Criminal Court of Baltimore was clearly erroneous in his judgment that the evidence established that Early feloniously murdered Hubert Johnson, wilfully and of premeditated malice aforethought, and that he unlawfully conspired with Theodore Daniels and Henry Jones and others to murder Johnson. 1 Maryland Rule 1086; Williams v. State, 5 Md. App. 450. There is no doubt that the manner of Johnson’s death was homicide. The report of the autopsy so stated, adding “stabbed by unknown assailant.”…