The appellants, Walter Johnson and Joseph Weatherly, were separately indicted in the Circuit Court for Somerset County. The indictments against each of them are based upon Code (1951), Article 2B, Section 3(a), as amended by Chapter 58 of the Laws of 1952. That portion of Section 3(a) under which the prosecutions were brought reads as follows:
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