Johnson v. State

On October 4, 1966 the appellant, a boy 14 years of age at the time of the commission of the crime for which he was convicted, was found guilty of murder in the first degree in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, by the court sitting without a jury and sentenced to imprisonment for the balance of his natural life. 1

The circumstances of the commission of the crime and its perpetration by the appellant are not disputed. On November 10, 1965, about 8:00 P.M. the appellant seized the purse of a woman, disclosed by hospital records and the autopsy report to have been 75 years of age, 5 feet 3 inches…