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PRESSLEY v. STATE

[No. 30, September Term, 1982.]

295 Md. 143 (1983)

454 A.2d 347

DAVID PRESSLEY v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 5, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary S. Offutt, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Maureen O'Ferrall Gardner, Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ.

SMITH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. DAVIDSON, J., dissents and filed a dissenting opinion at page 153 infra.

We granted a writ of certiorari in this case limited solely to the question of whether the trial court erred when it instructed the jury that it need not find beyond a reasonable doubt every link in a chain of circumstantial evidence. Given our oft stated rule that jury instructions must be viewed as a whole and considering this instruction...

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