BOWERS v. STATE

[No. 150, September Term, 1977.]

283 Md. 115 (1978)

389 A.2d 341

HOBART BOWERS v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 13, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha G. Villmoare, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Stephen B. Caplis, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Clarence W. Sharp, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

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


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

We granted certiorari here to decide whether the State child abuse law, Maryland Code (1957, 1976 Repl. Vol.) Art. 27, § 35A, is so vague and indefinite as to violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. After appellant's constitutional attack on the statute failed in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County (Evans, J.) and he was convicted by a jury of committing child...

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