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SNOWDEN v. STATE

No. 188, September Term, 1976.

33 Md. App. 659 (1976)

365 A.2d 321

ANTHONY TONY SNOWDEN v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 10, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Colvin, 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, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Edwin Wenck, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

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

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

John Morley's reflection that

"This means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made it."

is especially applicable to criminal law. Frequently the law serves only to define the means and limit the extent to which man may go in achieving an otherwise legitimate goal. Sexual relations, for example, are seldom simply illegal vel non; it is...

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