HORNEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
The defendant (Herbert A. Thompson) was convicted by a jury of rape and murder in the first degree without capital punishment and was sentenced to life imprisonment for each crime. He appealed.
On a morning in the latter part of November of 1961, the body of a woman in her fifties was found on a vacant lot in Baltimore City. She had been last seen on the preceding night leaving a tavern in the vicinity of the...
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