MATTER OF JOHNSON

No. 678, September Term, 1972.

17 Md. App. 705 (1973)

304 A.2d 859

MATTER OF DIANE CONNIE JOHNSON.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 31, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solomon Reddick, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Mary Elizabeth Kurz, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Milton B. Allen, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Lawrence Isbee, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MORTON, MOYLAN and GILBERT, JJ.


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

By the Laws of 1969, Ch. 432, § 2, codified as Md. Ann. Code art. 26, § 70, the General Assembly of Maryland set forth in unambiguous terms its purpose in respect to the law governing juvenile causes and delinquent children. The Legislature stated the purpose of the Act to be:

"(1) To provide for the care, protection and wholesome mental and physical development of children coming within the provisions...

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