CRAIG v. STATE

[No. 35, September Term, 1957.]

214 Md. 546 (1957)

136 A.2d 243

CRAIG v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 20, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton B. Allen and George L. Parrish, with whom were Brown, Allen & Watts on the brief, for appellant.

E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, J. Harold Grady, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Joseph G. Koutz, Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief, for appellee.

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


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

James Howard Craig, a Negro man, twenty-eight years of age, was convicted of common law rape upon an eight year old Negro female in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, and sentenced to death by the administration of a lethal gas. From this judgment and sentence, he has appealed.

He was tried by the Court, sitting without a jury, and the principal question involved is the sufficiency of the evidence relating to...

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