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HAMMOND v. STATE

No. 107, September Term, 1990.

322 Md. 451 (1991)

588 A.2d 345

WALTER PYLE HAMMOND v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 9, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan McMillan Davis (Russell J. White, White & Karceski, all on brief), Towson, for appellant.

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Richard B. Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen., all on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW and KARWACKI, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge (retired), Specially Assigned.

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge, Specially Assigned.

I

One hundred and thirty-eight years ago the Maryland Legislature declared that it was a crime

[i]f any person ... shall assault and beat any person, with intent to maim, disfigure or disable such person....

Acts 1853, ch. 99, § 1, now codified as § 386, Article 27 of the Maryland Code (1957, 1987 Repl.Vol.). During all those years, the Legislature has never explicitly stated whether...

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