Coates v. State

Melvin James Coates was convicted by a jury of robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to twenty years in the Maryland Penitentiary, to begin at the expiration of the sentence he was then serving in the Maryland House of Correction.

On this appeal he contends that the lower court erred in refusing to grant his motion for a directed verdict of acquittal at the conclusion of all of the evidence, claiming that the only witness who identified him as one of the participants in the crime was Miss Margie McKoy. She was a customer in Alliker’s Pharmacy, at about 11 p. m., on March 11, 1961, at the…