Gray v. State

The conviction of Ronald Gray of the robbery of Howard M. Smith, Sr., rendered by a jury in the Circuit Court for Harford County, and the sentence of 10 years imposed thereon are affirmed. His conviction of assaulting and beating Mr. Smith and the consecutive sentence of 5 years imposed thereon are vacated; in the circumstances here the offense of assault and battery merged into the conviction of robbery.

MERGER OF OFFENSES

Robbery, a common law offense in Maryland, is grand or petit larceny from the person of another by violence.* 1 The violence may be actual as by the application of physical…