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Hook v. State

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided February 13, 1989No. 68, September Term, 1988PublishedCited by 113 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge, Specially Assigned.

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Homicide is the killing of a human being by a human being. It is culpable when it is felonious. It is felonious when it is not legally justifiable or excusable. 1 Felonious homicide is either murder or manslaughter. 2 Murder is in the first degree or in the second degree. In Maryland, all murder perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, or by any kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing 3 or committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate certain felonies (of which robbery is one) is murder in the first degree.…

2Cases cited49 opinions

  1. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  3. Bordenkircher v. HayesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  4. In Re Murchison.Supreme Court of the United States · 1955
  5. Beck v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980

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3Cited by113 opinions

  1. State v. HawkinsCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1992
  2. Ball v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1997
  3. Burch v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1997
  4. Collins v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1990
  5. Hagans v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1989

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