Brown v. State

The appellant, Brown, was convicted of first degree murder in the Criminal Court of Baltimore by Judge Harris, sitting without a jury. First sentenced to life imprisonment, the sentence was “stricken” or “suspended” in order to enable him to file a motion for a new trial. Brown’s motion for a new trial was filed but later withdrawn. He was then sentenced to death. In this appeal from that judgment, the appellant contends first, that the trial court erred in failing to grant a motion for a directed verdict of acquittal of murder in the first degree; second, that the appellant’s representation…