Richardson v. State

The appellant, Gordon Lee Richardson, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County of rape, committing a perverted sex act and burglary. He was sentenced by Judge Ralph W. Powers to serve twenty years on the rape conviction, five years on the perverted sex act conviction and twenty years on the burglary conviction, the latter two sentences to run concurrently with the sentence for rape.

The victim, who was twenty-four years of age, unmarried and living alone in an apartment dwelling, testified that shortly prior to 6:00 a.m. on December 16, 1967, she awakened to find…