State v. Rawlings

The State appeals from an order of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County signed by Judge W. Harvey Beardmore dismissing a criminal information against Irvin Rawlings, the appellee, for abandoning and failing to support his minor child.* 1 The question that we are called upon to decide is whether an individual can properly be charged with criminal non-support under Md. Code, Art. 27, § 88 (b) (1) when the child is illegitimate.

The case arose out of a criminal information filed against the appellee charging him with a violation of § 88 (b) (1) which provides:

“(b) Desertion of child. — (1)…