Bell v. State

Oppenheimer, J.,

filed the following dissenting opinion.

The only difference between the majority of the Court and myself is on the issue of whether the convictions of the appel*370lants for acts which, under the Maryland public accommodations law would today be legal, are to be upheld because of the saving clause statute. I agree with my brethren that the passage of the 1963 public accommodations law brought about a fundamental change in the criminal trespass statute; that, in the situations specified in the public accommodations law, the two enactments are repugnant and are in irreconcilable…