Webb v. State

On an indictment containing two counts, assault with intent to kill and murder, and common assault, the appellant was found guilty on the first count by the court, sitting without a jury, and sentenced to five years in the Maryland House of Correction. The appellant contends that the court erred in refusing his motion for directed verdict at the close of the whole case, and that the sentence was ‘-cruel and unusual” under the circumstances.

The testimony shows that the appellant, a resident of Easton, Maryland, had been “going with” one Reba Brooks for about four years, and on the night of…