BEAN v. STATE

[No. 149, September Term, 1963.]

234 Md. 432 (1964)

199 A.2d 773

BEAN v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 28, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Barbour and W.A.C. Hughes, Jr., (on both arguments) for appellant.

Mathias J. DeVito, Assistant Attorney General, (on both arguments), with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, and George W. Bowling, Special Assistant Counsel for State, Waldorf, Maryland, on the brief, for appellee.

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


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

The appellant, John M. Bean, was indicted by a Charles County Grand Jury on a charge of rape, to which he pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. He elected a non-jury trial, and a two-judge court found him guilty, and further found that he was sane at the time of the commission of the crime and at the time of trial. He was sentenced to the penitentiary for life and this appeal ensued.

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