Presley v. State

Appellant appeals from a judgment entered on a jury’s verdict of guilty on the first count and sentence of death upon an indictment returned by the grand jury of Baltimore City containing five counts: rape, assault with intent to rape, carnal knowledge of a girl under fourteen years of age, assault with intent to carnally know a girl under the age of fourteen, and simple assault, all upon an eleven, year old girl, on January 3, 1960.

At the beginning of the trial on April 11, 1960, Judge Cullen, when the talesmen were brought into the courtroom, advised them that this was “an important and…