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UNITED STATES COIN & CURRENCY v. DIR. OF FINANCE

[No. 81, September Term, 1976.]

279 Md. 185 (1977)

367 A.2d 1243

UNITED STATES COIN AND CURRENCY IN THE AMOUNT OF $21,162.00 ET AL. v. DIRECTOR OF FINANCE OF BALTIMORE CITY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 13, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert V. Lazzaro for appellants.

A. Gus Mastracci, Assistant City Solicitor, with whom were Benjamin L. Brown, City Solicitor, and Harry S. Swartzwelder, Jr., Associate Solicitor, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and ORTH, JJ.

DIGGES, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

We are here presented with a narrow question, and find that the answer becomes self-evident by simply reading a section of the Maryland Code. The question is whether appellee Director of Finance of Baltimore City may obtain title to $21,162 seized by the city police in a gambling raid, even though he failed to file his forfeiture petition within the time frame set out in §...

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