Leonard v. State

Appellant was charged in a twelve-count indictment with armed robbery and various related offenses, all arising out of the robbery of a Texaco service station on February 12, 1979. After a jury trial in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, he was convicted on seven of the twelve counts and, after merging two of the seven, the court sentenced him on the remaining five counts for a total of thirteen years.

Brenda Bates, the manager of the station on duty at the time of the robbery, testified that appellant walked into the station office on the day in question, engaged her in conversation…