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- Title: Adams, Nelson, and Timanus v. State
- Author : Court Of Appeals Of Maryland
- Release Date : January 09, 1952
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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The appellant, Charles L. Humphreys, a Negro, was found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County of raping a white woman and was sentenced to a term of twenty years in the Maryland Penitentiary. In this appeal from the judgment and sentence he makes the following contentions: (1) that it was prejudicial error for the trial court to refuse to examine prospective jurors on voir dire as to possible racial prejudice in a case of this character, with the particularity requested by him; (2) that it was reversible error to refuse to allow his witness, Merrill Dashiell, to answer a question concerning the reputation of the prosecuting witness for having