Murray v. State

While confined at Patuxent Institute Roosevelt E. Murray assaulted a female employee, a fact he later admitted at trial. The information charged that the incident occurred April 28, 1973; however, an information charging assault and battery was not filed until May 3, 1974. Trial was held six months later on November 6, 1974.

His appeal from a conviction by a jury of the Circuit Court for Howard County, presided over by Judge James Macgill, questions nothing of substance in the trial at which he was convicted of assault. His complaints rest upon denial of two preliminary motions and the absence…