Gordon v. State

Per Curiam. The appellant was found guilty of robbery with a deadly weapon at a court trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 8 years. On appeal from the judgment the contentions raised go to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction. There w’as evidence adduced by the State that on 11 February 1967 about 2:30 A.M. Mrs. Lyndel Hogan, a cab driver, discharged a passenger at Fremont and Penn Streets.

Three boys came up, one with a gun on the driver’s side of the cab and the other two on the opposite side. 1 They took her purse, with her money — $53.00 — and personal belongings. Another cab approached and the boys ran. She reported the robbery on her radio. At the trial Mrs. Hogan identified the boy with the gun as Ronnie C. Gamble, Jr. but was unable to identify the other two.

The cab that approached the scene of the crime was driven by Leroy Williams. He saw the three boys, one leaning inside ¹⁰⁴ the cab on the driver’s side and two on the opposite side. They ran as he approached. He heard the report of the robbery on his radio, followed them and saw them go into a house on Portland Street.

The police arrived and he reported his observations. At the trial he identified the appellant and Gamble as two of the boys he had seen. Officer James George responded to the report of the robbery and went to the scene. After talking to Mrs. Hogan and Williams he went to 625 Portland Street, the house Williams had seen the boys enter.

He and other'officers were admitted into the house and found a pistol and the contents of Mrs. Hogan’s purse strewn about the premises. No