BENNETT v. STATE

[No. 270, September Term, 1961.]

229 Md. 208 (1962)

182 A.2d 815

BENNETT v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 5, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh A. McMullen, with whom were Gunter & Geppert on the brief, for the appellant.

Robert S. Bourbon, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, James S. Getty, State's Attorney for Allegany County, and Donald W. Mason, Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, HORNEY and MARBURY, JJ.


BRUNE, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The principal question in this case seems to be a novel one in this Court with regard to double jeopardy. On this appeal the defendant challenges his conviction of what is often referred to as statutory rape (and will be so referred to below) on the ground that he had previously been convicted on his plea of guilty to a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and that the present prosecution is for the...

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