Shoemaker v. State

Bruñe, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The defendant-appellant was indicted for rape and was tried in 1957 before a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, without capital punishment, and the court sentenced the defendant to twenty years’ imprisonment. Upon an application under the Post Conviction Procedure Act he was granted a delayed appeal after a hearing before Judge Digges, and this Court denied the State’s application for leave to appeal. State v. Shoemaker, 225 Md. 639, 171 A. 2d 468. He urges two grounds for reversal:…