Fuller v. State

On 12 July 1979 a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore (Murphy, J.) found the appellant, Gerald Davis Fuller, guilty of the first degree murder of his wife. The appellant’s motion for a new trial was denied on 16 August 1979, and four days later he was committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction for the balance of his natural life. In noting a timely appeal to this Court, Mr. Fuller requests that we consider two contentions:

I. The trial judge committed reversible error in failing to grant a judgment of acquittal for first degree murder for the reason that the evidence…