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STATE v. SUTER

No. 189, September Term, 1977.

38 Md. App. 72 (1977)

379 A.2d 425

STATE OF MARYLAND v. JOSEPH RICHARD SUTER.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 14, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted by Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Sweeney, Assistant Attorney General, Sandra A. O'Connor, State's Attorney for Baltimore County, Charles A. Ruppersberger, III, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore County, and David F. Mister, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore County, for appellant.

Submitted by Russell J. White for appellee.

The cause was submitted on briefs to GILBERT, C.J., and THOMPSON and MOORE, JJ.

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

Procedure is to law what the wheel is to a cart — a necessary factor. The importance of procedure to our society, functioning under a rule of law, was well illustrated by Curtis Bok in an address at the National Book Awards in New York City on January 26, 1954. Bok said:

"In the whole history of law and order the longest step forward was taken by primitive man, when, as if by common consent, the tribe...

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