Jones v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of assault and battery in a non-jury trial in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. Clifford Herman Jones, the appellant, contends that his arrest was unlawful, and, if it was, that some of the evidence used against him was illegally obtained and there was not sufficient evidence to convict him.

At the trial, Miss Dierdre Roberts testified that, as she was returning to her home in Silver Spring at about one-thirty or two o’clock in the morning of June 21, 1964, she was “jumped” from behind as she got out of her car. On her way home, she had noticed a car…