Lynch v. State

Isaac Junior Lynch (appellant) tried by the court in the Criminal Court of Baltimore was found guilty of murder in , the first degree and burning a storehouse. A life sentence was imposed on the murder conviction and, consecutively therewith, a sentence of 10 years on the storehouse burning conviction. 1

The questions presented on appeal go to the admissibility of confessions of appellant, to the sufficiency of the evidence and to the merger of offenses.

THE CONFESSIONS(1)

Appellant, invoking Jackson v. Denno, 378 U. S. 368 and Sims v. Georgia, 385 U. S. 538, claims that the judgments must be…