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DELCLEF v. STATE

No. 75, September Term, 1984.

303 Md. 344 (1985)

493 A.2d 1073

HARRY FRANCIS DELCLEF v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 12, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Julia Doyle Bernhardt and John L. Kopolow, Asst. Public Defenders, Baltimore, for appellant.

Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen. and Diane G. Goldsmith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, for appellee.

Submitted to MURPHY, C.J., SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and JAMES C. MORTON, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

We granted certiorari, 300 Md. 386, 478 A.2d 712 (1984) to consider whether use of the statutory short form indictment for theft prescribed by Maryland Code (1957, 1982 Repl. Vol.), Article 27, § 344(a) violated the petitioner Delclef's claimed constitutional right to a charging document that sufficiently advised him of the alleged misconduct and set forth the essential elements of the offense.

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