HUMPHREYS v. STATE

[No. 84, September Term, 1961.]

227 Md. 115 (1961)

175 A.2d 777

HUMPHREYS v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 5, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hamilton P. Fox, Jr., for appellant.

Robert S. Bourton, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, and Alfred Truitt, Jr., State's Attorney for Wicomico County, on the brief, for appellee.

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


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

The appellant, Charles L. Humphreys, a Negro, was found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County of raping a white woman and was sentenced to a term of twenty years in the Maryland Penitentiary. In this appeal from the judgment and sentence he makes the following contentions: (1) that it was prejudicial error for the trial court to refuse to examine prospective jurors on voir dire as to possible...

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