Greenwald v. State

When Jacob J. Greenwald (the defendant), a medical doctor, was convicted by a jury in Talbot County—to which this case and others had been removed for trial—of violating a law concerning the marriage of minors and sentenced to three years in the Maryland Penitentiary, the defendant, claiming several errors, appealed.

On July 14, 1958, the grand jury of Cecil County (in which Elkton, the county seat, has been a Gretna Green for years) returned eighty-five indictments against the defendant. Fortjr-two of them, including this case, charged the defendant with perjury. The other forty-three, of…