Braxton v. State

ALPERT, Judge.

Doctor George Franklin Phillips, a prominent Baltimore physician, was murdered shortly after 10:00 p.m. on September 21, 1981. Following a lengthy jury trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City (Perrott, J., presiding), Donald Braxton, appellant, was convicted of attempted robbery with a deadly weapon, felony murder, and use of a handgun while committing a crime of violence. Appellant was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment on the felony murder charge and a consecutive fifteen-year term for the handgun violation.

On appeal, appellant asks us to consider:

I. Whether the…