Legal Opinion
Reeves v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided February 19, 1968No. 24, September Term, 1967PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The Appellant, Charles James Reeves, was convicted of rape, without capital punishment, by a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on April 27, 1966. This was Reeves’ second trial and conviction, his first conviction having been vitiated as a result of Habeas Corpus proceedings in the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. (See Reeves v. Warden, 346 F. 2d 915). In his first trial, Reeves had been convicted of rape 1 and sentenced to life imprisonment. In his second trial, the presiding judge sentenced him on June 10, 1966, to twenty years imprisonment (the maximum allowed by the…
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3Cited by21 opinions
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