Hall v. State

'James Curtis Hall, the appellant, was convicted of sodomy by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, Judge Matthew S. Evans presiding without a jury. The sentence imposed was two years consecutive to the sentence which Hall was then serving. The questions presented on appeal concern the admissibility of certain evidence and the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict.

The testimony can be summarized as follows :

James Stuart Aberts, age 23, testified that while he w^as incarcerated at the Maryland House of Correction on January 28, 1967, a riot broke out in the institution at or…