GLEATON v. STATE

[No. 351, September Term, 1963.]

235 Md. 271 (1964)

201 A.2d 353

GLEATON v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 11, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Lewis for the appellant.

Stuart H. Rome, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, and James Owen Knotts, State's Attorney for Caroline County, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, PRESCOTT, HORNEY and SYBERT, JJ., and KEATING, J., Associate Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


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

This is an appeal from the judgment and a sentence of ten years entered on a plea of guilty to a charge of simple assault.

In the late evening of May 3, 1963, the defendant (Charlie Daniel Gleaton) and a codefendant entered a tavern in Denton ostensibly for the purpose of inquiring as to the whereabouts of another person. While there, they became involved in a fight with a group of patrons and bystanders. After...

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