Carr v. State

Bruñe, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant, Carr, was tried and convicted on a bastardy charge in the Criminal Court of Baltimore in 1955 and was ordered to pay seven dollars a week for the support of the child. Several witnesses testified in support of the State’s case, including the midwife to whom Carr took the prosecuting witness. The late Judge Moser, before whom the case was tried (without a jury), in reaching his verdict placed great reliance upon the midwife’s testimony. In 1956 the appellant obtained an affidavit executed or alleged to have been executed by the…