STATE v. WEST

No. 258, September Term, 1969.

9 Md. App. 270 (1970)

263 A.2d 602

STATE OF MARYLAND v. IRVING K. WEST.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 6, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. DiCicco, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, T. Bryan McIntire, State's Attorney for Carroll County, and J. Robert Johnson, Assistant State's Attorney for Carroll County, on the brief, for appellant.

Russell R. Reno, Jr. and Douglas D. Connah, Jr. (Elsbeth Levy Bothe on the brief) for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ANDERSON, MORTON, ORTH, and THOMPSON, JJ.


MORTON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The single issue presented in this case involves the constitutionality, vel non, of Md. Code, Art. 27, § 20, known generally as the blasphemy statute. The case is before us by virtue of our having granted the State's application for leave to appeal from the order of Judge Edward O. Weant, sitting in the Circuit Court for Carroll County, in which relief was granted the petitioner below under the Uniform Post...

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