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JONES v. STATE

No. 1378, September Term, 1975.

32 Md. App. 490 (1976)

362 A.2d 660

JOHN JONES v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 30, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elsbeth L. Bothe, Assistant Public Defender, with whom were Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, and George E. Burns, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Alexander L. Cummings, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before GILBERT, C.J., and MOYLAN, DAVIDSON and LOWE, JJ.

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

Sir William Blackstone, "One of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas," recorded in his Commentaries on the Laws of England that "[t]he power to punish for contempt seems to have originated in the fact that the king, in contemplation of law, is supposed to be always present in his courts." II Cooley's Blackstone, Bk. IV, p. 283, n. 1 (4th...

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