Matthews v. State

CATHELL, Judge.

Appellant, Melvin Matthews, was convicted in a jury trial in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County (Beard, J., presiding) of second degree rape and child abuse. He was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment for the rape conviction and to a concurrent fifteen-year term for the child abuse conviction.

On appeal, appellant presents the following questions:

1. Was Appellant’s self-incriminating statement involuntary and taken in violation of his Miranda[1] rights?

2. Did the lower Court err by allowing Appellant’s four year old daughter to testify?

3. Did the lower Court err by…