Bland v. State

CAREY, Justice.

The defendants below, David Bland and Raymond Medon, were convicted by a jury in Superior Court of burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary. They have appealed, contending that the evidence concerning their alleged participation in the crimes was insufficient to justify their conviction, since it consisted solely of the testimony of alleged accomplices which was so contradictory as to render it unbelievable.

A rather lengthy statement of the evidence is necessary. A family which resides in Wilmington went to the seashore on a Friday afternoon in August, 1968, leaving their…