Legal Opinion

State v. Cox

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided December 22, 1983No. 59, September Term, 1982PublishedCited by 84 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COLE, Judge.

The gory details of this crime need not be recounted with specificity. Suffice it to say that the facts clearly show that the prosecutrix was brutally beaten about her face and body, raped, sodomized and forced to perform fellatio at night on the ground in an outdoor area near her home. She identified Thomas Wayne Cox as her assailant to her mother and the police immediately after the attack as someone whom she knew from the neighborhood who gave as his excuse for his assault that he had just gotten out of jail and “had not had a woman in six months.”

Cox was arrested the same…

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2Cases cited32 opinions

  1. Alford v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  2. Smith v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Dorsey v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1976
  4. Ross v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1976
  5. Martens Chevrolet, Inc. v. SeneyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1982

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3Cited by84 opinions

  1. Merzbacher v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1997
  2. Harris v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1993
  3. Ware v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1997
  4. Grandison v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1995
  5. Clinebell v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1988

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