Brown v. State

The appellant, Johnny Mack Brown, was convicted of murder in the first degree on March 7, 1967 by the court sitting without a jury and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Maryland Penitentiary. He contends on this appeal (a) that his confession was secured in violation of the principles enunciated in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436, and was thus improperly admitted into evidence at his trial, and (b) that certain statements made by a police officer to the appellant’s father while appellant was in police custody were also erroneously admitted into evidence at his trial, and (c) that the…