Baltimore County v. Missouri Realty Inc‪.‬

Jerome B. Hester and James S. Gunn, Jr., the appellants, appeal from multiple convictions in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, Judge James A. Perrott presiding without a jury. Hester was convicted of robbery and rape and sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape conviction and ten years for the robbery conviction to run concurrently. Gunn was convicted of robbery and assault with intent to rape and sentenced to ten years for the former conviction to run concurrently with a sentence of life imprisonment for the latter conviction. Although the parties were jointly tried they have filed separate appeals on different grounds which are set out hereinafter.