Eley v. State

Pericles Eley, the appellant, was convicted of robbery in a trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, Judge Meyer M. Cardin presiding without a jury. He complains that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict.

Jessie J. Williams, age 56, a driver for the Checker Cab Company, testified that on June 3, 1967, at approximately 2:30 A.M., Pericles Eley and a female companion entered his taxicab. They were driven to the vicinity of Patterson Park Avenue and Mura Street, where the female, later identified as Gladys Harvey, left the cab and told the driver to take Eley to the Y.M.C.A.…