MILES v. STATE

No. 14, Sept. Term, 1996.

707 A.2d 841 (1998)

349 Md. 215

William H. MILES v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 6, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherrie B. Glasser, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Gary E. Bair, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, and RAKER, JJ., and ROBERT C. MURPHY, Judge (retired), Specially Assigned.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

The petitioner William H. Miles was found guilty of common law battery for punching a man who had denied Miles's request for money. Based on the same act, Miles was also found guilty of "aggressive panhandling" in violation of former Art. 19, § 249, of the Baltimore City Code, which made it unlawful, inter alia, to "touch[ ] another person in the course of panhandling without that person's consent...

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