Jennings v. State

In a jury trial before Judge Edward D. E. Rollins in the Circuit Court for Cecil County on December 17, 1968, appellant Billy Edward Jennings was found guilty of the assault and battery of a jail guard and of attempting to escape from the Cecil County Jail, and was sentenced to two years imprisonment on each charge, the terms to run concurrently. From these judgments, he appeals.

Appellant raised three contentions. First, he claims that in view of his dissatisfaction with the performance of his court-appointed counsel before trial and counsel’s admissions that he had “only learned on Thursday…