SHELL v. STATE

No. 17, September Term, 1985.

307 Md. 46 (1986)

512 A.2d 358

JAMES ROBERT SHELL, v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 24, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy S. Forster and Julia Doyle Bernhardt, Asst. Public Defenders (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Ann E. Singleton, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

This appeal concerns inconsistent verdicts in a nonjury criminal trial resulting in part from confusion in the law as to the relevance of voluntary intoxication to various criminal charges. James Robert Shell contends that he should not have been convicted by the trial judge of use of a handgun in the commission of a felony or crime of violence after he had been acquitted by the judge, because of voluntary intoxication, of the underlying felony or...

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