BASKERVILLE v. STATE

No. 102, September Term, 1974.

23 Md. App. 439 (1974)

327 A.2d 918

DRURY R. BASKERVILLE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 19, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elsbeth L. Bothe and George E. Burns, Jr., Assistant Public Defenders, for appellant.

Gilbert Rosenthal, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Milton B. Allen, State's Attorney for Baltimore City and Sandra O'Connor, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before THOMPSON, MOYLAN and DAVIDSON, JJ.


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

As in a "shell game" at a country carnival, a "check kiting" scheme has the elements of the crime of false pretenses moving back and forth from one transaction to the next so rapidly under the hands of a skilled manipulator that the ultimate resting place of a particular element is exceedingly difficult to locate.

Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged) gives the following definition...

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