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LEDBETTER v. STATE

[No. 136, September Term, 1960.]

224 Md. 271 (1961)

167 A.2d 596

LEDBETTER v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 8, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman N. Yankellow, with whom was Joseph Rosenthal on the brief, for appellant.

Robert C. Murphy, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, Saul A. Harris and James W. Murphy, State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney, respectively, on the brief, for appellee.

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

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

John Frank Ledbetter, Jr., appellant, claims on appeal that the jury's verdict of guilty of murder (without capital punishment) was inconsistent with their verdict of not guilty of robbery, and must fall because if there was evidence sufficient to justify the murder verdict, which he denies, that evidence was that the killing occurred in the perpetration of a robbery.

We find in the record testimony including...

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