Wiggins v. State

The appellant Wiggins was convicted by two judges sitting without a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of robbery with a deadly weapon and of murder in the first degree committed during a holdup of a liquor store.

In support of his effort to secure a reversal in this Court, appellant argues that the evidence was insufficient to support the trial court’s denial of his motion for a judgment of acquittal at the end of the State’s case and insufficient to permit the ultimate finding by the triers of fact of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Wiggins, after having been told by his conscientious,…