MURRAY v. STATE

No. 1071, September Term, 1974.

27 Md. App. 404 (1975)

340 A.2d 402

ROOSEVELT E. MURRAY v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 1, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted by Stephen L. Miles, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant.

Submitted by Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Leroy Handwerger, Assistant Attorney General, Charles E. Wehland, State's Attorney for Howard County, and Lisa Mervis, Assistant State's Attorney for Howard County, for appellee.

The cause was submitted on briefs to MOYLAN, MENCHINE and LOWE, JJ.


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

While confined at Patuxent Institute Roosevelt E. Murray assaulted a female employee, a fact he later admitted at trial. The information charged that the incident occurred April 28, 1973; however, an information charging assault and battery was not filed until May 3, 1974. Trial was held six months later on November 6, 1974.

His appeal from a conviction by a jury of the Circuit Court for Howard County, presided...

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