Miles v. State

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

The petitioner William H. Miles was found guilty of common law battery for punching a man who had denied Miles’s request for money. Based on the same act, Miles was also found guilty of “aggressive panhandling” in violation of former Art. 19, § 249, of the Baltimore City Code, which made it unlawful, inter alia, to “touch[ ] another person in the course of panhandling without that person’s consent.” 1 Miles received separate sentences for the battery and the aggressive panhandling. Miles appealed, arguing, inter alia, that common law battery was a lesser-included offense and…