Legal Opinion

Davis v. State

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided April 5, 1961No. [No. 194, September Term, 1960.]PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Per curiam

Appellants, after their motions for directed verdicts were denied, were convicted by a jury of robbery with a dangerous or deadly weapon. They urge in this Court that the State did not show that the weapon used was “either dangerous or deadly” and that it was prejudicial error to admit in evidence two bullets found in the pocket of one of the appellants.

The testimony was that two men wearing masks entered a drug store in Northwest Baltimore and took bills, checks and coins from the cash register at the point of a gun. The druggist said one of the men came around the counter “and put a gun in…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Vincent v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1959
  2. Hayes v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2001
  3. Daniels v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1957
  4. Lipscomb v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1906
  5. Braxton v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2001

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Brooks v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1989
  2. Jackson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1963
  3. Joseph Hobbs, Jr. v. Vernon L. Pepersack, Warden of the Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1962
  4. State v. KieonSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1961
  5. Banks v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1962

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