Dixon v. State

MOYLAN, Judge.

The appellant, Thomas Dalton Dixon, was convicted by a Prince George’s County jury, presided over by Judge G.R. Hovey Johnson, of first-degree assault and the use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence. He was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment for the first-degree assault and a consecutive sentence of twenty years for the handgun violation. On this appeal, he claims

1) that Judge Johnson erroneously permitted the victim to testify that he had on a prior occasion purchased drugs from the appellant;

2) that Judge Johnson erroneously admitted evidence showing that…