Turner v. State

Murphy, C. J., and Smith, J., dissent. Smith, J., filed a dissenting opinion at page 647 infra, in which Murphy, C. J., concurs.

We shall decide in this case whether the testimony of a third party relating an excited utterance made by an accomplice to the third party provides the necessary corroboration of the accomplice’s testimony. We distill the facts giving rise to this issue as follows.

At the murder trial of Howard Turner, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, John Morris, an admitted accomplice, testified that while he, Turner, and Mark Willis were committing a robbery, Turner shot Morris…