Smith v. State

Smith and O’Donnell, JJ., dissent and Smith, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which O’Donnell, J., concurs at page 163 infra.

After being convicted of murder in the second degree in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, appellant took an appeal to the Court of Special Appeals. There, she unsuccessfully sought to attack her conviction on three grounds. The decision on one of those grounds has led to this further appeal. We granted certiorari to review “the question whether the trial court erred in refusing to permit [certain] testimony aimed at impeaching a key State’s witness.”

The major defense to…