Hayes v. State

On November 17, 1963, the appellant, Garfield Arnold Hayes, was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, Judge J. Gilbert Prendergast presiding. Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Appellant raises four contentions on appeal:

1) The lower court erred in allowing the jury to view the photograph of the deceased taken after the performance of surgical procedures.

2) The lower court erred in allowing testimony concerning appellant’s conviction of the independent crime of carrying a weapon four days prior to the death of Annette Louise Johnson.

3)…