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IN RE SPECIAL INVESTIGATION NO. 185

[No. 123, September Term, 1981.]

293 Md. 652 (1982)

446 A.2d 1151

IN RE: SPECIAL INVESTIGATION NO. 185

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 1, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Albert Figinski, with whom were Arnold M. Weiner and D. Christopher Ohly on the brief, for appellant.

Dale P. Kelberman, Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON and RODOWSKY, JJ., and J. DUDLEY DIGGES, Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired), specially assigned.

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

Md. Code (1957, 1982 Repl. Vol.), Art. 27, § 592A (a) provides that "[t]he State's attorney may issue a summons for a witness for the purpose of obtaining evidence to prepare an information."1 In this case we shall hold § 592A does not authorize a summons in order to investigate whether or not a crime has occurred. Rather, the statute, at a minimum, requires that the State's Attorney...

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