# Campbell v. State

> Court of Appeals of Maryland · February 19, 1992 · 325 Md. 488

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9733549

## Case

- **Full name:** Roy CAMPBELL v. STATE of Maryland
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Maryland
- **Decided:** February 19, 1992
- **Citations:** 325 Md. 488; 601 A.2d 667; 1992 Md. LEXIS 27
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by McAULIFFE
- **Judges:** Murphy, Eldridge, Rodowsky, McAuliffe, Chasanow, Karwacki, Bell
- **Cited by:** 26 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that "[w]hen the object of a conspiracy is the commission of a crime, alleging that fact in the charging document obviously would be a sufficient statement of the conspiracy's object," and rejecting the notion that "when the commission of a crime is the object of the i…
- stating that defendant’s failure to file timely motion attacking indictment as defective for omitting specifics of charge of “conspiracy to violate controlled dangerous substances law” constituted waiver of such defects
- noting that the defendant could have demanded a bill of particulars in a case in which he alleged an insufficient indictment

## Opinion text

*510 ELDRIDGE and McAULIFFE, Judges,
dissenting:
We dissent from the Court’s affirmance of the conspiracy conviction for essentially the reasons set forth by Judge O’Donnell in McMorris v. State, 277 Md. 62, 77-90 , 355 A.2d 438, 447-454 (1976).

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