Hammond v. State

James A. Hammond, Jr., the appellant, was found guilty of larceny of $114 in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, by Judge James K. Cullen, sitting without a jury. He was sentenced to not more than three years in the Maryland Correctional Institution for Men, and has appealed.

On July 10, 1964, Wayne Petty, an employee of an A. & P. Supermarket, located at 252 North Franklintown Road, was giving change to a customer when a man standing in the next checkout aisle reached into the cash register Petty was operating, grabbed a handful of bills, then ran out of the store and south down Franklintown…