Legal Opinion
Presley v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 8, 1970No. [No. 313, September Term, 1969.]PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, C. J.
In this case we granted certiorari to the Court of Special Appeals to pass on the contention of James Leslie Presley that in his trial for rape in the Circuit Court for Caroline County the instructions to the jury of Judge DeWeese Carter as to the penalties for rape were prejudicially erroneous. Full consideration of the record and of the arguments, written and forensic, for Presley and for the State has convinced us that in Presley v. State, 6 Md. App. 419, the Court of Special Appeals did not err in rejecting that contention.
Presley was first convicted by a jury in Baltimore of the…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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