Jones v. State

Weldon Jones, Jr., a colored boy eighteen years of age,. and his brother Holbrook Jones, fourteen years of age, were convicted by the judges of the Circuit Court for Wi comico County, without the aid of a jury, of murder in the first degree. Weldon was sentenced to be hanged, Holbrook to the Penitentiary of the State of Maryland for the term of his natural life. They appealed to this Court.

The indictment against them, upon which they were tried and convicted, was returned by the grand jury of Somerset County. It charges that these brothers “on the 12th day of January, 1945, at the County and…