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RUNKLES v. STATE

No. 855, September Term, 1990.

87 Md. App. 492 (1991)

590 A.2d 552

ALLEN FILMORE RUNKLES v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

May 30, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Burns, Jr., Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Thomas E. Hickman, State's Atty. for Carroll County, Westminster, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before MOYLAN, BLOOM and DAVIS, JJ.

PROLOGUE

DAVIS, Judge.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on December 6, 1865, abolished involuntary servitude and the corresponding commercial buying and selling of people as chattel. One would assume that the Thirteenth Amendment, if not the Common Law, would prohibit something so fundamentally repugnant and socially unacceptable as the commercial selling of babies.

When a Pennsylvania couple attempted to sell...

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