MASSEY v. STATE

No. 136, September Term, 1988.

320 Md. 605 (1990)

579 A.2d 265

DENISE MASSEY v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 20, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherrie B. Glasser, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Ann N. Bosse, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued Before ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS, and BLACKWELL, JJ.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

This criminal case presents the narrow issue of when the State must institute a prosecution for welfare perjury, a misdemeanor proscribed by Maryland Code (1957, 1985 Repl.Vol., 1989 Cum.Supp.), Art. 88A, § 62(a). More broadly, however, the case concerns the appropriate period of limitations for misdemeanor prosecutions generally.

The relevant facts are as follows. On September 9, 1987, the State filed a ten count criminal information...

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