Harrod v. State

ALPERT, Judge.

We are called upon in this appeal to decide, inter alia, whether a person can be convicted of assaulting another who has suffered no harm and was never aware of the alleged assault. Appellant John G. Harrod was charged with two counts of assault and two counts of carrying a deadly weapon openly with intent to injure. He was convicted of these offenses on December 11, 1984, following a trial without a jury in the Circuit Court for Carroll County (Lerner, J., presiding), and sentenced on January 21, 1985, to two terms of two years’ imprisonment for the assault convictions and two…