Legal Opinion
Giles v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided August 16, 1962No. [No. 312, September Term, 1961.]PublishedCited by 116 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHorney, J.
James V. Giles and John G. Giles were found guilty by a jury of raping a sixteen-year old girl and were sentenced to death. From the judgment and sentence entered on the verdict they have appealed to this Court.
About midnight on July 20, 1961, Joyce Roberts and Stewart Foster and two other young men went to a secluded spot in Montgomery County near a dam on the Patuxent River to go swimming. But when other friends they were expecting did not appear, they started to leave and ran out of gas. Joyce and Stewart remained in the automobile while the other two young men set out to get gas.
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2Cases cited47 opinions
- Fay v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Bute v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Jackman v. Rosenbaum Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1922
- Foster v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Bruce v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2001
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3Cited by116 opinions
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Giles v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- White v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1988
- Williams v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1968
- Schowgurow v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1965
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