Dorsey and Wilson v. State

This case deals with yet another aspect of Mullaney v. Wilbur, 421 U. S. 684, 95 S. Ct. 1881, 44 L.Ed.2d 508 (1975), as applied to the law of homicide in Maryland by Evans v. State, 28 Md. App. 640, 349 A. 2d 300. It is, indeed, a variation on Brown v. State, 29 Md. App. 1, 349 A. 2d 359, which was a variation on Evans.

The appellants, Josephine Dorsey and Isaiah Sylvester Wilson, were convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore-by a jury, presided over by Judge Basil A. Thomas, of both (1) conspiracy to commit murder and (2) murder in the first degree. Their most significant contention upon…