Jeandell v. State

The appellant, Philip Asay Jeandell, was convicted in the Circuit Court for Kent County by a jury, presided over by Judge George B. Rasin, of breaking and entering a storehouse and related offenses. Upon this appeal, he raises the single contention that the evidence was not legally sufficient to permit the case to go to the jury. That sufficiency question, in turn, revolves around whether two State’s witnesses, Albert Williams and Michael Bell, were accomplices and whether, if that be so, their testimony was corroborated.

In terms of corpus delicti, it was established that the Eastern Shore…