SHOPE v. STATE

No. 455, September Term, 1978.

41 Md. App. 161 (1979)

396 A.2d 282

RAYMOND GRADY SHOPE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 11, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley M. Dietz for appellant.

Stephen B. Caplis, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis Bill Burch, Attorney General, Andrew Sonner, State's Attorney for Montgomery County, and Thomas Cooke, Assistant State's Attorney for Montgomery County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MOORE, LOWE and WILNER, JJ.


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

— two sizes too small —

Lori Michelle O'Callaghan visually epitomized "what little girls are made of" — if one could have seen her beyond her bruises and welts. Raymond Grady Shope (who lived with Lori's mother) having caused those bruises and welts on six-year-old Lori, was convicted by a jury in the Montgomery County Circuit Court of child abuse.

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