Crawford v. State

Garland Crawford was on September 28th, 1937, indicted by the grand jurors of the State of Maryland for the body of Baltimore City for the murder of Loretta Anderson on August 7th of the same year. To this indictment he filed a special plea, a demurrer to which was interposed by .the State and' sustained. He elected to be tried before the court sitting as a jury, by whose verdict he was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and, his motion, for a new trial having been heard and overruled by the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, the trial court gave judgment that he be confined in the…