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SMALLWOOD v. STATE

[No. 152, September Term, 1957.]

216 Md. 16 (1958)

139 A.2d 242

SMALLWOOD v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 3, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted on brief by John H.T. Briscoe for the appellant.

Submitted on brief by C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, Stedman Prescott, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, and Walter B. Dorsey, State's Attorney for St. Mary's County, for the appellee.

Before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.

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

Eugene Smallwood, a Negro man, was convicted of the crime of common law rape by a jury in the Circuit Court for Charles County, and sentenced by Judges Digges and Dorsey to life imprisonment. The appellant was indicted in St. Mary's County, but, at his request, the trial was removed to Charles County. From this conviction and sentence, he has appealed.

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