McDonough v. Director

Applicant was convicted of five separate charges of assault and battery, and one charge each of malicious destruction of property, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct by a trial magistrate in Baltimore County on April 6, 1959. From these convictions, applicant, with aid of counsel, filed an order for appeal to the “Criminal Court of Baltimore County.” On August 5, 1960, before a jury, with Judge John Grason Turnbull presiding, the jury returned verdicts of guilty in all eight cases. Applicant was sentenced to two years in the Maryland House of Correction on one of the assault charges,…