Legal Opinion
James v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 27, 1949No. [No. 137, October Term, 1948.]PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMarkell, J.
This is an appeal in forma pauperis from a sentence to death on a verdict, by the court without a jury, of guilty of murder in the first degree.
On July 6, 1948, a few minutes after noon, Marsha Brill, eleven years old, was stabbed with a large knife by a colored man who came up Glen Avenue or out of the bushes on the side of Glen Avenue. She died of the wound at Union Memorial Hospital early the same afternoon. There is no evidence of an attempt to rape or that before the killer appeared on Glen Avenue appellant had even seen her.
Before she was stabbed she and two young friends, Barbara and…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Palko v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- McNabb v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Haley v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Brown v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
- Chambers v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
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3Cited by30 opinions
- Culombe v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Ball v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1997
- Bean v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1964
- Grammer v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2001
- Linkins v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1953
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