POPE v. STATE

No. 341, September Term, 1977.

38 Md. App. 520 (1978)

382 A.2d 880

JOYCE LILLIAN POPE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 13, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Lohm, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant.

Deborah K. Handel, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Andrew L. Sonner, State's Attorney for Montgomery County, and Laurence D. Beck, Assistant State's Attorney for Montgomery County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before THOMPSON, MENCHINE and LOWE, JJ.


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

Having sinned by silence when the circumstances cried out for her to protest a mother's prolonged and inhumane treatment of a three-month-old child, the appellant, Joyce Lillian Pope, was convicted in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County of child abuse and misprision of felony. Although we find that the record contained insufficient evidence upon which the child abuse conviction can be sustained, there is ample to sustain...

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