Holt v. State

William Rollins Holt, also known as Herbert Lee Mayes, the. appellant, was convicted of murder in the first degree in a jury trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore. He was sentenced to be confined for the term of his natural life. The conviction is based upon Section 410 of Article 27 of Md. Code which provides that murder committed in the perpetration of a robbery or an attempted robbery shall be murder in the first degree. The facts are set out fully in the companion case in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, Cunningham v. State, 247 Md. 404, 231 A. 2d 501; the evidence produced in the…