Legal Opinion
Hourie v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 5, 1983No. 163PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Judge.
This case involves the two-witness rule for the crime of perjury in the context of applications for food stamps and public assistance. We shall affirm the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals in Hourie v. State, 53 Md.App. 62, 452 A.2d 440 (1982), which upheld appellant’s convictions, although on somewhat different grounds.
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Georgeine Emilio Hourie was convicted by Cole, J., in the Circuit Court for Talbot County on eight counts which charged that she “did unlawfully and feloniously make application for public assistance and food stamps by making a false and fraudulent…
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