Walls v. State

• Court: Maryland Supreme Court
• Writing for the Court: Before BRUNE; PER CURIAM
• Citation: Walls v. State, 150 A.2d 926, 220 Md. 115 (Md. 1959)
• Decision Date: 13 May 1959
• Docket Number: No. 264,264
• Parties: Isaac Christopher WALLS v. STATE of Maryland.

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220 Md. 115

150 A.2d 926

Isaac Christopher WALLS v. STATE of Maryland.

No. 264.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 13, 1959.

Stanley J. Schapiro, Baltimore, for appellant.

James H. Norris, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. (C. Ferdinand Sybert, Atty. Gen., Stedman Prescott, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., J. Harold Grady, State's Atty. for Baltimore City, Edward F. Borgerding, Asst. State's Atty. for Baltimore City, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellee.

Before BRUNE, C. J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Joseph Mazor was attacked in his liquor and confectionery store in Baltimore by four young Negroes, one a girl, who pointed a pistol at him and forced him into a telephone booth. The appellant Walls pulled Mazor from the booth and struck him on the head several times with a chair leg he was carrying. The invaders carried out their purpose by robbing the safe, the cash register, and Mazor of some $1,400 in cash, and by taking whisky from the shelves. The court, sitting without a jury, convicted the four of robbery with a deadly weapon, and only Walls appealed from the judgment and sentence that followed.

Counsel appointed by the court to prosecute the appeal in this Court argues, with all the effectiveness the record with which he was presented permits, that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdict. We find the evidence entirely sufficient to have permitted the trier of fact to be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Walls was guilty of the crime charged. It was shown that the four met and entered into a plan to hold up Mazor's store, that one of the four exhibited to the others the pistol that was to be used in the robbery, and that Walls first mentioned the Mazor store as a place to rob and gave directions to the others concerning the plan to be followed in the robbery. Mazor, although he had not identified Walls in...