Court of Special Appeals of Maryland November 3, 1995, No. 24 (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.