Court of Special Appeals of Maryland January 12, 1979, 494, September Term, 1978 (Gardner v. State)

Lowe, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

— the hobgoblin

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Over a hundred years ago, Stephen’s

General View of Criminal Law

pointed out that the law of conspiracy is the most complete illustration of the fiction consisting of treating as a crime, not the very acts which are intended to be permeated, but certain ways of doing them. Fitz. St. 62.