Legal Opinion
Newton v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided May 5, 1977No. [No. 66, September Term, 1976.]PublishedCited by 185 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEldridge, J.
Murphy, C. J., and Smith, J., dissent and Murphy, C. J., filed a dissenting opinion in which Smith, J., concurs at page 275 infra.
The issue in this criminal case is whether convictions of and sentences for both felony murder and the underlying felony, where both charges arose from the same act or transaction and were tried at the same time, violate the prohibition against double jeopardy contained in the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and applicable to state court proceedings by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The State presented evidence at the trial which, if…
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