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STATE v. JOYNES

No. 86, September Term, 1987.

314 Md. 113 (1988)

549 A.2d 380

STATE OF MARYLAND v. ETHEL R. JOYNES.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 2, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Bainbridge, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Victoria S. Keating, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired) Specially Assigned.

BLACKWELL, Judge.

This case involves physical altercations among neighbors. The sole issue presented is whether the trial judge committed reversible error by refusing to admit evidence of a witness's prior criminal conviction for battery,1 where the witness was earlier convicted in connection with the same incident. Here, the defendant sought to admit the witness's battery conviction in the subsequent trial on the grounds it constituted...

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