Wise v. State

The appellant, James Branch Wise, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Howard County of murder in the first degree (the case having been removed from Wicomico County) and sentenced to life imprisonment.

In this appeal, he contends, generally, that the evidence was-legally insufficient to sustain his conviction and, specifically, that the conviction rests upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice.

According to the testimony of a taxicab driver, he drove the appellant and a man named Mack from his cab stand to McCrory’s Store in Salisbury, Maryland, about 7:00 p.m. on a…