Swift v. State

Price (“Redtop”) Swift (the defendant) was tried and convicted by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County sitting without a jury of an assault with intent to have carnal knowledge of a female child under the age of fourteen years. On this appeal from the judgment and sentence entered on the verdict, the defendant alleges that the trial court committed four reversible errors: (i) that he was convicted of a crime which does not exist; (ii) that he was denied a speedy trial; (iii) that a witness was allowed to testify after she had been excluded under the rule; and (iv) that the evidence…