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IN RE WILLIAM G

No. 1418, September Term, 1981.

52 Md. App. 131 (1982)

447 A.2d 493

IN RE: WILLIAM G.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 12, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted by Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, and Gary W. Christopher, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Submitted by Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Adriana V. Klich, Assistant Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Michael Garn, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, for appellee.

The cause was submitted on briefs to MOYLAN, MASON and WILNER, JJ.

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

In this case we are asked to decide whether the Maryland Cruelty to Animals Statute is unconstitutionally vague. Article 27, sections 59 and 62 of the Maryland Code (1982 Repl. Vol.) in relevant part provide:

Section 59. Any person who (1) overdrives, overloads, deprives of necessary sustenance, tortures, torments, cruelly beats, mutilates or cruelly kills; or (2) causes, procures or authorizes these...

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