Beasley v. State

The appellant, William A. Beasley, was convicted of escape by Judge Ridgely P. Melvin, Jr. in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County and sentenced to two years in prison to run consecutively with the sentence he was then serving. He contends (1) that he was charged and convicted of violating Art. 27, § 139 which is a felony when he should have been charged under Art. 27, § 700A (c) which is a misdemeanor, and (2) that his sentence constituted cruel and unusual punishment.

FACTS

The information charged that the appellant on October 26, 1970, “while undergoing lawful custody in pursuance of a…