Legal Opinion

Brown v. State

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided October 26, 1977No. 5PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the CourtMurphy, C. J.

A jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore found appellant, Jacqueline Brown, guilty of murder in the second degree. She appealed, contending that her conviction should be reversed because it rested solely on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice. The Court of Special Appeals affirmed the judgment in an unreported opinion, holding *242that there was legally sufficient evidence corroborative of the accomplice’s testimony to support the conviction. We granted certiorari and requested the parties to consider, as an additional question, whether the long-standing rule of our cases that a person…

2Cases cited86 opinions

  1. Caminetti v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
  2. State v. WoleryOhio Supreme Court · 1976
  3. Watson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2001
  4. Commonwealth v. FrenchMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1970
  5. State v. BegynSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1961

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Brown v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1977

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