Legal Opinion
Laws v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 10, 1969No. 193, September Term, 1968PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
Clyde E. Laws and Thomas F. Dorman, the appellants, were convicted of kidnapping in the Circuit-Court for Talbot County, Judges J. DeWeese Carter and Harry E. Clark presiding with a jury. The case had been removed from Montgomery County at the request of the appellants who were each sentenced to a term of twenty years. Questions on appeal will be set out hereinafter.
The evidence can be summarized as follows :
Clement Lee Lanham, at the time in charge of the Kroeger Store located on Georgia Avenue, Montgomery County, Maryland, testified that both Laws and Dorman participated in an armed robbery…
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