
    THOMAS MONROE WALTON v. STATE OF MARYLAND LYN JAYNE SILK v. STATE OF MARYLAND
    [No. 137, [No. 138,
    September Term, 1977.]
    September Term, 1977.]
    
      Decided May 8, 1978.
    
    The cause was argued before Murphy, C. J., and Smith, Digges, Levine, Eldridge, Orth and Cole, JJ.
    
      John Grason Turnbull, II, for appellant Thomas Monroe Walton. Paul J. Feeley, Public Defender, for appellant Lyn Jayne Silk.
    
      Stephen N. Rosenbaum, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis Bill Burch, Attorney General, Clarence W Sharp, Assistant Attorney General, and Gilbert H. Robinette, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.
   ORDER

The petitions for certiorari not having disclosed that the pertinent Maryland statute, controlling in these cases, Maryland Code (1957,1976 Repl. Vol.), Article 27, § 125A, had been repealed by Chapter 692 of the Acts of 1977, effective July 1, 1977; and

The State having filed no answer in opposition to the petitions for a writ of certiorari pointing out the fact that § 125A had been repealed; and

It appearing, in view of the repeal of § 125A, that these cases do not involve the public interest within the contemplation of § 12-203 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article; therefore, it is this 8th day of May, 1978

ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, that the writs of certiorari be, and they are hereby, dismissed, petitions having been improvidently granted; and it is further

ORDERED that the State of Maryland shall pay all costs in these proceedings.  