HENN AND JOHNSON v. STATE

[No. 32, September Term, 1964.]

236 Md. 615 (1964)

203 A.2d 899

HENN AND JOHNSON v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 15, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas G. Bottom for appellants.

Robert F. Sweeney, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, and Frank H. Newell, III and M. Jacqueline McCurdy, State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney, respectively, for Baltimore County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, C.J., and PRESCOTT, MARBURY, SYBERT and OPPENHEIMER, JJ.


PER CURIAM:

These appellants, convicted of attempted robbery, contend that their confessions were inadmissible, the evidence was insufficient, and counsel was inadequate. We find no merit in any of these contentions. The State met its burden of proving voluntariness, and there was independent proof, through circumstantial evidence, of the corpus delicti. See Veney v. State, 225 Md. 237. We distinguish Escobedo v. Illinois...

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