COATES v. STATE

[No. 351, September Term, 1962.]

232 Md. 72 (1963)

191 A.2d 579

COATES v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 18, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman Berlin for appellant.

Franklin Goldstein, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, William J. O'Donnell, State's Attorney, and George J. Helinski, Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HAMMOND, PRESCOTT, HORNEY and MARBURY, JJ.


PER CURIAM:

Melvin James Coates was convicted by a jury of robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to twenty years in the Maryland Penitentiary, to begin at the expiration of the sentence he was then serving in the Maryland House of Correction.

On this appeal he contends that the lower court erred in refusing to grant his motion for a directed verdict of acquittal at the conclusion of all of the evidence, claiming that the only witness who identified him...

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