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2016 Maryland Code
Criminal Law
Title 1 - General Provisions
Subtitle 4 - Miscellaneous Provisions
§ 1-401. Proof of intent -- Fraud, theft, and related crimes
MD Crim Law Code § 1-401 (2016) What's This?
In a trial for counterfeiting, issuing, disposing of, passing, altering, stealing, embezzling, or destroying any kind of instrument, or theft by the obtaining of property by false pretenses, it is sufficient to prove that the defendant did the act charged with an intent to defraud without proving an intent by the defendant to defraud a particular person.
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