White v. State

COLE, Judge.

Donna Lynn White (White) was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Washington County of first-degree murder and of child abuse in violation of Maryland Code (1957, 1987 Repl.Vol.), Art. 27, § 35A. She received consecutive sentences of life imprisonment for first degree murder and fifteen years for child abuse. The Court of Special Appeals affirmed the convictions in an unreported opinion. We granted White’s petition for a writ of certiorari to deter mine whether a conviction of child abuse should merge into a murder conviction where both convictions are based on the same…