Davis v. State

This appeal revolves around a portion of the instructions given to the jury by the Criminal Court of Baltimore in the trial of Lorenzo Davis, Jr. thirteen years ago. The court advised the jury:

If the jury considering all the evidence, inculpatory and exculpatory, entertain a reasonable doubt of the defendant’s participation in the crime, they should acquit him. Thus a defendant is entitled to acquittal if the alibi testimony, taken into consideration with all the other evidence in the case, raises a reasonable doubt of guilt. But, in order to prove an alibi conclusively, the testimony must…