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Fuente: Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab (static.case.law); Court of Special Appeals of Maryland; 7 Md. App. 70. Datos: https://static.case.law/md-app/7/cases/0070-01.json. Opinión judicial de EE.UU. sin restricciones conocidas de uso: CAP levantó las restricciones el 2024-03-01 (prensa); el espejo HF free-law declara cc0-1.0; NO c… Abrir la fuente
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Coit v. State, 7 Md. App. 70 (Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, 1969) Per Curiam. James Coit, the appellant, was convicted of common-law assault and carrying a concealed weapon in the Criminal Court of Baltimore. Judge Thomas J. Kenney, presiding without a jury, imposed concurrent sentences of seven years and six months respectively. Coit contends that it was error to admit a razor into evidence; that it was error to allow an in-court identification; and that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict. There was evidence from which the trial judge could find: On the afternoon of November 13, 1967, Rufus Wright, while engaged in a discussion with Coit in a tavern in Baltimore, was assaulted and cut about the head and face with a straight razor wielded by Coit. Wright ran out of the tavern to a police station across the street and was taken to the University Hospital where his wounds were treated. Marion Mason, a barmaid, after seeing Coit with “something like a razor,” sounded the burglar alarm; however, she did not actually see the cutting. Police arrived promptly and arrested one Walls who had a knife openly in his possession at the time the police entered the tavern. Thinking Walls was the assailant, the policemen did not stop Coit who left the premises. Thereafter, Officer Lascóla, acting on information received from eyewitnesses in the tavern and from another officer, Miller, arrested Coit about an hour after the incident and about two blocks from the…
Fuente: Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab (static.case.law); Court of Special Appeals of Maryland; 7 Md. App. 70. Datos: https://static.case.law/md-app/7/cases/0070-01.json. Opinión judicial de EE.UU. sin restricciones conocidas de uso: CAP levantó las restricciones el 2024-03-01 (prensa); el espejo HF free-law declara cc0-1.0; NO c… Abrir la fuente
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Coit v. State, 7 Md. App. 70 (Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, 1969) Per Curiam. James Coit, the appellant, was convicted of common-law assault and carrying a concealed weapon in the Criminal Court of Baltimore. Judge Thomas J. Kenney, presiding without a jury, imposed concurrent sentences of seven years and six months respectively. Coit contends that it was error to admit a razor into evidence; that it was error to allow an in-court identification; and that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict. There was evidence from which the trial judge could find: On the afternoon of November 13, 1967, Rufus Wright, while engaged in a discussion with Coit in a tavern in Baltimore, was assaulted and cut about the head and face with a straight razor wielded by Coit. Wright ran out of the tavern to a police station across the street and was taken to the University Hospital where his wounds were treated. Marion Mason, a barmaid, after seeing Coit with “something like a razor,” sounded the burglar alarm; however, she did not actually see the cutting. Police arrived promptly and arrested one Walls who had a knife openly in his possession at the time the police entered the tavern. Thinking Walls was the assailant, the policemen did not stop Coit who left the premises. Thereafter, Officer Lascóla, acting on information received from eyewitnesses in the tavern and from another officer, Miller, arrested Coit about an hour after the incident and about two blocks from the…