Felder v. State

The appellant, James Keller Felder, was convicted of armed robbery and assault with a dangerous weapon by Judge George Sachse, sitting without a jury, in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, and sentenced to serve three (3) years and six (6) months on the armed robbery conviction and one (1) year on the assault with a dangerous weapon conviction, to run concurrently.

The record indicates that shortly after 5 :00 a.m. on March 1, 1967, two men walked into the office of the American Oil Company terminal in Anne Arundel County, one carrying a sawed-off shotgun and the other a tire iron.…