Walls v. State

Joseph Mazor was attacked in his liquor and confectionery store in Baltimore by four young Negroes, one a girl, who pointed a pistol at him and forced him into a telephone booth. The appellant Walls pulled Mazor from the booth and struck him on the head several times with a chair leg he was carrying. The invaders carried out their purpose by robbing the safe, the cash register, and Mazor of some $1,400 in cash, and by taking whisky from the shelves. The court, sitting without a jury, convicted the four of robbery with a deadly weapon, and only Walls appealed from the judgment and sentence…