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WASHINGTON v. STATE

No. 7, September Term, 1967.

2 Md. App. 633 (1967)

236 A.2d 32

ALBERT WASHINGTON AND ROBERT EDWARD WALKER v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 18, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Dukes, Jr., for appellants.

Alan M. Wilner, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, and James E. Kenkel, Deputy State's Attorney for Prince George's County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was submitted to MURPHY, C.J., and ANDERSON, MORTON, ORTH, and THOMPSON, JJ.

PER CURIAM:

Following their pleas of guilty to the crime of assault and battery, appellants were each given an indeterminate sentence not to exceed ten years in the Maryland Reformatory for Males. Their sole contention on this appeal is that the sentences imposed on them were cruel, excessive and unusual in violation of Articles 16 and 25 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights, and of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution.

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