JACKSON v. STATE

[No. 132, September Term, 1960.]

224 Md. 267 (1961)

167 A.2d 789

JACKSON v. STATE BLACKMAN v. STATE (Two Appeals in One Record)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 8, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Taylor, with whom was J. Franklyn Bourne on the brief, for the appellants.

William J. McCarthy, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, Leonard T. Kardy, State's Attorney for Montgomery County, and Stuart H. Sweeney, Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT, HORNEY and MARBURY, JJ.


HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The trial court, sitting without a jury, found the appellants guilty of housebreaking and the larceny of a pink refrigerator from a newly constructed house. They first attacked the convictions on the ground that there was no proof of the corpus delicti in that there was no proof of the value of the refrigerator and no proof that it was taken without the owner's consent. Both contentions are without merit. The State...

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