Reidy v. State

Appellant was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County of second degree murder and sentenced by the court to eleven years under the jurisdiction of the Department of Correction. He contends on this appeal that the prosecutor so exceeded the bounds of permissible comment in his closing argument to the jury as to deny him his constitutional right to a fair trial.

Evidence was adduced at the trial showing that on the night of June 24, 1968, the deceased Robert Goodman and the appellant left a tavern and, after heated words were spoken between them, an altercation…