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CRAWFORD v. STATE

No. 644, September Term, 1984.

61 Md. App. 620 (1985)

487 A.2d 1214

LEONARD ROLLON CRAWFORD v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

February 13, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward N. Everett, Landover (Roane & Everett, P.C., Washington, D.C., on the brief), for appellant.

Deborah K. Chasanow, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Atty. for Prince George's County and Constance Junghans, Asst. State's Atty., Upper Marlboro, for Prince George's County, on the brief), for appellee.

Submitted before GILBERT, C.J., and WEANT and ALPERT, JJ.

GILBERT, Chief Judge.

"Self-defense," according to Sir William Blackstone in 3 Commentaries on the Laws of England *4, "is justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the law of society." Indeed, self-defense both in England and in Maryland has been held to be an excuse for breaches of the peace and even homicide.

Included within the broader concept of self-defense is the narrower defense of necessity,

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