Legal Opinion
Smith v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 12, 1976No. 14, September Term, 1975PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMason, J.
The appellant, John Henry Smith, was tried before a jury in the Circuit Court for Cecil County 1 and convicted of two counts of murder and two counts of arson. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for each of the murder counts, the terms to be served concurrently. For the arson counts, he was sentenced to two thirty year terms which were to run concurrently with each other, but consecutively to the sentences imposed for the murder counts.
The crimes for which the appellant was convicted stemmed from the burning of Gene’s Bar and Restaurant in Forest Hill, Harford County, during the early…
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