Leeson v. State

This case presents the question whether it was reversible error for the trial court to exclude certain evidence proferred to show the petitioner’s intent at the time of an alleged robbery on the ground that such evidence was irrelevant.

On 7 March 1980, in the Circuit Court for Harford County, the petitioner, Philip Earl Leeson, Jr., was charged with, among other things, robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon, burglary, and malicious destruction of property.

At the trial, the State produced evidence to show that the petitioner had committed the crime of armed robbery. There was evidence to…