Legal Opinion
Pressley v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 5, 1983No. [No. 30, September Term, 1982.]PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
Davidson, J., dissents and filed a dissenting opinion at page 153 infra.
We granted a writ of certiorari in this case limited solely to the question of whether the trial court erred when it instructed the jury that it need not find beyond a reasonable doubt every link in a chain of circumstantial evidence. Given our oft stated rule that jury instructions must be viewed as a whole and considering this instruction with the other instructions given in this case, we find no reversible error. Hence, we shall affirm.
David Pressley was convicted of storehouse breaking by a Baltimore City jury. The…
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