NEAL v. STATE

No. 1140, September Term, 1979.

45 Md. App. 549 (1980)

413 A.2d 1386

RANDOFF PRESTON NEAL v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 9, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garland E. Lowe, with whom were Hal I. Lackey and Coggins, Harman, Lackey & Lowe, P.A. on the brief, for appellant.

William H. Kenety, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, William Hymes, State's Attorney for Howard County, and Bernard A. Raum, Senior Assistant State's Attorney for Howard County, on the brief, for appellee.

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


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

In Dill v. State, 24 Md.App. 695 (1975), we held that the common law crime of "indecent exposure" in Maryland had been supplanted by the 1967 express inclusion of that act in Md. Code, Art. 27, § 122 as a disturbance of the public peace. We reasoned that the Legislature could hardly have intended to permit the punishment of the common law crime, limited only by constitutional...

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