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STATE v. SMITH

No. 528, September Term, 1987.

73 Md. App. 378 (1987)

534 A.2d 371

STATE OF MARYLAND v. RUSSELL JAMES SMITH.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

December 9, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann E. Singleton, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Alexander Williams, Jr., State's Atty. for Prince George's County and Thomas A. Krehely, Jr., Asst. State's Atty. for Prince George's County on the brief, Upper Marlboro), for appellant.

Mark Colvin, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before GILBERT, C.J., and MOYLAN and BISHOP, JJ.

GILBERT, Chief Judge.

"[W]ords are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment." Commissioner of Internal Rev. v. National Carbide Co., 167 F.2d 304, 306 ([2d Cir.] 1948). "The same words, in different settings, may not mean the same thing." Skelly Oil Company v. Phillips Co., 339 U.S. 667, 678, 70 S.Ct. 876 [882], 94 L.Ed. 1194 (1950).

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