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- Title: Strawderman v. Maryland
- Author : Supreme Court of Minnesota
- Release Date : January 14, 1968
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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Court of Baltimore of robbery with a deadly weapon and assault. He was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 15 years on the robbery conviction and for a term of 2 years on the assault conviction to run consecutively with the robbery sentence. His appeal from the judgments requires a construction of the provisions of Chapter 709, Acts of 1967 which are codified in Md. Code (1968 Repl. Vol.) as Art. 59, ?? 7-12, title -- "Lunatics and Insane," subtitle -- "Insanity as a Defense in Criminal Cases." Chapter 709 repealed former ?? 7-12 of Art. 59 and enacted new ?? 7-12 in lieu thereof. By ? 2 of Chapter 709 its provisions were made applicable to all cases tried or scheduled for trial on and after 1 June 1967 and we have held that they were not to be retroactively applied. League v. State, 1 Md. App. 681, 685. As the appellants case was tried on 20 June 1967, the provisions of Chapter 709 were applicable to it. Hereinafter ?? 7-12 of Art. 59 as were in effect prior to 1 June 1967 will be referred to as the "old" sections and as are in effect on and after that date as the "new" sections.