Faulcon v. State

The appellant, James W. Faulcon, was indicted for murder in the first degree of Walter W. Lockett. He pleaded not guilty. He was tried before the trial judge, sitting without a jury, and found guilty of murder in the first degree. After a motion for a new trial was denied by the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Maryland Penitentiary. From that judgment and sentence he appeals here.

The appellant does not dispute that he killed Lockett on October 14, 1955, by running over him with his automobile. He claims, however, that there was not sufficient…