FARRELL v. STATE

[No. 174, October Term, 1956.]

213 Md. 348 (1957)

131 A.2d 863

FARRELL v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for rehearing or modification of the opinion, filed June 11, 1957.

Denied June 25, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William I. Gosnell, for appellant.

Joseph S. Kaufman, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, J. Harold Grady, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Joseph G. Koutz and Norman Polski, Assistant State's Attorneys, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and COLLINS, HENDERSON, HAMMOND and PRESCOTT, JJ.


COLLINS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal by Cornelius Farrell from a judgment and sentence to death for rape.

On June 5, 1956, a white woman, hereinafter referred to as Mrs. T., visited Sach's Tavern in south Baltimore frequented by colored people. She testified that she stayed there for about two hours and consumed seven bottles of beer. She went there to see a girl who owed her husband some money and she thought maybe she could...

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