# Wentz v. State

> Court of Appeals of Maryland · May 15, 1930 · 159 Md. 161

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3488212

## Case

- **Full name:** David O. Wentz v. . State of Maryland.
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Maryland
- **Decided:** May 15, 1930
- **Citations:** 159 Md. 161; 150 A. 278; 1930 Md. LEXIS 99
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Bond
- **Judges:** Bond, Tteneb, Oebutt, Digges, Paeke, Sloan
- **Cited by:** 56 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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Bond, C. J.,
filed the following dissenting opinion:
As tfie charge is one of abnormality, and a jury would find it peculiarly difficult to accept testimony of tfie crime without having it shown them tfiat tfie accused possessed tfiat abnormal constitution, I think evidence of tfie other daughter, of debauching her, too, fias a special value and importance tfiat require its admission. It seems to me tfiat its exclusion carries tfie rule regarding evidence of other crimes to an extent and a consequence not reasonable. Any great difference between tfie times of commission of acts upon the one daughter and tfie other might require exclusion, but tfie decision is not concerned with tfie element of time.

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