Turner v. State

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

A jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore convicted Ernest Turner of simple assault; it acquitted him of the crime of assault with intent to maim. The trial judge imposed a ten-year sentence. The judgment was affirmed on appeal to the Court of Special Appeals. Turner v. State, 55 Md.App. 367, 462 A.2d 70 (1983). We granted certiorari upon Turner’s petition to determine whether the trial judge erred (1) in refusing to admit evidence that Turner’s prior conviction of robbery, adduced by the State to impeach his credibility as a witness in his own behalf, was based upon his…