WEBB v. STATE

[No. 43, October Term, 1952.]

201 Md. 158 (1952)

93 A.2d 80

WEBB v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 5, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Z.H. Stafford, with whom was LeRoy L. Wallace, and John W. Williams, on the brief, for appellant.

Kenneth C. Proctor, Assistant Attorney General, and Harry E. Clark, Jr., State's Attorney for Talbot County, with whom was J. Edgar Harvey, Deputy Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MARKELL, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS and HENDERSON, JJ.


HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

On an indictment containing two counts, assault with intent to kill and murder, and common assault, the appellant was found guilty on the first count by the court, sitting without a jury, and sentenced to five years in the Maryland House of Correction. The appellant contends that the court erred in refusing his motion for directed verdict at the close of the whole case, and that the sentence was "cruel and unusual...

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