Braxton v. State

Alvin Braxton was convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree for the shooting of a Baltimore City policeman, and sentenced to die by the administration of lethal gas. His appeal claims reversible error in the admission in evidence of the revolver used in the shooting, and its shells, and in the legal insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict.

Braxton, a seventeen year old youth, with two of his friends, attempted an armed robbery of a liquor store in Baltimore. While fleeing the scene, he was shot in the leg by a policeman and disarmed. He was entrusted to the custody of…