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IN RE APPEAL NO. 180, TERM 1976

[No. 51, September Term, 1976.]

278 Md. 443 (1976)

365 A.2d 540

IN RE APPEAL NO. 180, SEPTEMBER TERM, 1976, FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY, SITTING AS A JUVENILE COURT

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 4, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip G. Dantes, with whom was Peter S. Smith on the brief, for appellant.

Henry E. Dugan, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, William A. Swisher and Mark Cohen, State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, respectively, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and ORTH, JJ.

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

We shall here hold that the word "solicit" as used in Maryland Code (1957) Art. 27, § 15 (e) making it unlawful "to solicit ... for the purpose of prostitution" is to be read in the terms of its ordinary meaning and not with reference to the common law offense of solicitation.

The facts are not in dispute. Appellant (the juvenile), then 15 years of age, approached...

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