Jones v. State

Robert Augustus Jones, the appellant, was convicted of assault and battery in the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County, Judge Perry G. Bowen, Jr. presiding with a jury. The court granted a motion to acquit as to a charge of assault with intent to murder, and the jury acquitted as to a charge of larceny. The court imposed an indeterminate sentence of four to six years.

On appeal Jones alleges that the trial .court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal as to assault and battery, in permitting Trooper Moore to be called as a witness in violation of an exclusion of witnesses order,…