State v. Raines

KARWACKI, Judge.

Ronald Lee Raines and Lawrence Wayne Bentley, the respondents, were convicted at a bench trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County of the first degree premeditated murder of Cynthia Southern. The questions we shall address are whether sufficient evidence was presented at trial to support the convictions of Raines, as a principal in the first degree, and Bentley, as a principal in the second degree, of that murder.

I

The events preceding the murder of Cynthia Southern began on the morning of January 7, 1990, when Bentley went to his father’s home and took his father’s .32…