Waters v. State

Orth, J.,

delivered the majority opinion of the Court. Murphy, C. J., dissents. Dissenting opinion by Murphy, C. J., at page 228, infra.

The appellant, who testified that he was 80 years of age, was convicted of assault with intent to rape in the Circuit Court for Somerset County before Judge William W. Travers, presiding without a jury, and sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of his natural life.1

A motion for judgment of acquittal was made at the close of *219all the evidence and denied. Maryland Rule, 755. The relevant questions raised by the appellant on this appeal go to the sufficiency…