WILLIAMS v. STATE

[No. 65, October Term, 1953.] [No. 82, October Term, 1953.]

204 Md. 55 (1954)

102 A.2d 714

WILLIAMS v. STATE JONES v. STATE (Two Appeals in One Record)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 11, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.A.C. Hughes, Jr., and Juanita Jackson Mitchell for appellants.

Ambrose T. Hartman, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Edward D.E. Rollins, Attorney General, Anselm Sodaro, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Edwin A. Gehring and Theodore C. Waters, Jr., Assistant State's Attorneys, on the brief, for appellee.

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


SOBELOFF, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The interest and importance that attach to the issues raised in this case are vastly disproportionate to the small fines imposed by the Criminal Court of Baltimore City — $25 and $50 on the appellants Williams and Jones upon their conviction on one count and two counts respectively — for assault and battery on police officers and a police matron. We permitted consolidation of the appeals because the...

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