Crossland v. State

The appellant, Spencer Crossland, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Baltimore City in 1966 on four counts: (1) on having committed a daytime house-breaking, (2) for being a rogue and vagabond, (3) for having committed larceny and (4) for having received stolen goods. The case was tried before Judge James A. Perrott, without a jury, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore. The trial court granted Crossland’s motion for a directed verdict at the conclusion of the State’s case with respect to the first, third and fourth counts of the indictment because the State had failed to prove ownership of the…