MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court. SMITH and DIGGES, JJ., dissent, and SMITH, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which DIGGES, J., concurs at page 59 infra.
This case reaches us from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, Maryland Code (1974) Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article, § 12-601 et seq.; that Act authorizes us to answer questions of state...
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