Legal Opinion
Yorke v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 7, 1989No. 123, September Term, 1988PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge, Specially Assigned.
I
Robin Conner, 15 years of age, asserted that she had been violated. Her allegations resulted in a criminal trial before a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. The State adduced evidence legally sufficient for the jury to find the corpus delicti of each of first degree rape, first degree sexual offense, kidnapping, and carrying a weapon openly, and the criminal agency of Gary George Yorke. The jury so found and Yorke was duly sentenced. Seeking to overturn the judgments, Yorke pursued to no avail all of the measures then available to…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Poole v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1983
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- Ford v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1859
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3Cited by47 opinions
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