Hooper v. State

The petitioners James L. Hooper and Melvin J. Kordon were charged in six-count indictments with false pretenses. The crimes were allegedly committed over a six-year period. Each count in both indictments covered the events of an entire calendar year, with each count alleging that the defendant obtained funds at different times during the year from the State of Maryland "by certain false pretenses” through the delivery to the Maryland Medical Assistance Program of "certain claims for reimbursement for alleged office visits which claims were in truth and in fact false.”

Upon the defendants’…