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TAPSCOTT v. STATE

No. 135, Sept. Term, 1995.

684 A.2d 439 (1996)

343 Md. 650

Robert Allan TAPSCOTT v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 4, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl G. Feissner (Robyn L. Behrman, Feissner & Slatkin, on brief), Burtonsville, for petitioner.

Diane E. Keller, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, on brief), Baltimore, for Respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

In this case, we address whether half-blood relationships are included within Maryland's prohibition against incest, codified as Maryland Code (1957, 1996 Repl.Vol.), Article 27, § 335, which provides:

Every person who shall knowingly have carnal knowledge of another person, being within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are prohibited by law in this State, shall be deemed guilty of a felony....

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