DeVaughn v. State

The appellant, Edward Everett DeVaughn, was tried before Judge Carter, sitting without a jury, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, on a charge of murder of Robert Crawford. After a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree without capital punishment, and a sentence of life imprisonment in the Maryland Penitentiary, he has taken this appeal.

He has raised three questions which will be dealt with separately, although not in the order in which counsel presented them in the briefs and oral argument.

There is considerable conflict in the testimony, and since several of the disputed facts go to…