COMBS v. STATE

[No. 115, September Term, 1964.]

237 Md. 428 (1965)

206 A.2d 718

COMBS v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 5, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin Somes Tyng and Lawrence S. Lanahan, Jr., for the appellant.

Robert F. Sweeney, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, Edwin H.W. Harlan, State's Attorney for Harford County, and Donald G. Smith, Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before PRESCOTT, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, SYBERT and OPPENHEIMER, JJ.


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

This is an appeal by Edward Combs from a judgment and sentence of life imprisonment for rape, imposed by Chief Judge Day in the Circuit Court for Harford County, who sat without a jury.

On Monday evening, February 18, 1963, a fifty-six year old woman was assaulted and raped in the rear yard of her home in Harford County. She told police that at approximately 9:30 p.m. she heard the back doorbell and proceeded...

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