Contee v. State

HiJndiírson, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant was convicted of rape in a former trial and on appeal the judgment was reversed. Contee v. State, 223 Md. 575. Upon remand the case was removed for trial to another county and the accused was again convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

No question of the sufficiency of the evidence of rape is raised in this appeal, and it will suffice to say that there was evidence that it was performed, under threat with a knife, in the presence of an off-duty nurse occupying the same apartment as the prosecuting witness, who was then an…