Court of Special Appeals of Maryland June 6, 1979, 650, September Term, 1978 (Davis v. State)

Melvin, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

On April 12, 1978, at a jury trial in the Circuit Court for Allegany County (Getty, J., presiding), the appellant, Charles William Davis, Jr., was convicted of murder in the first degree and the use of a handgun in the commission of that crime of violence. The murder victim was Mrs.