HOURIE v. STATE

No. 1294, September Term, 1981.

53 Md. App. 62 (1982)

452 A.2d 440

GEORGEINE EMILIO HOURIE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 9, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynn Leonhardt, with whom were Miller, Wheeler, Thompson & Thompson on the brief, for appellant.

Patricia E. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Sidney S. Campen, Jr., State's Attorney for Talbot County, and Jane Tolar O'Connor, Assistant State's Attorney for Talbot County, on the brief, for appellee.

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


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

A healthy legal system should strive constantly for greater harmony and should, even when it cannot always eliminate existing disharmony, avoid adding new disharmony. It is against the backdrop of that ideal that we review the convictions of the appellant, Georgeine Emilio Hourie, for welfare fraud and false swearing. She was tried by Judge Donaldson C. Cole, Jr., sitting without a jury, in the Circuit Court for Talbot...

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