Legal Opinion
Anderson v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided February 6, 1985No. 77, September Term, 1984PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOYLAN, Judge.
The key issue on this appeal is whether the enactment of the Child Abuse Law, Md.Code Ann. Article 27, § 35A (1957, 1982 Repl.Vol.), preempted a particular corner of the field of common law assault and battery and thereby repealed it. The significance to the appellant, Eric Anderson, Sr., is apparent. He was charged in a two-count indictment with 1) statutory child abuse and 2) common law assault and battery upon his eighteen-month-old son, Eric Anderson, Jr. A Baltimore City jury, presided over by Judge Mary Arabian, somehow found him not guilty of child abuse but guilty of…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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- Simms v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1980
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3Cited by22 opinions
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