BALTIMORE COUNTY. 793

STATE'S ATTORNEY.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 3, sec. 194. 1888, Art. 3, sec. 223. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 378.
1916, sec. 605. 1928, sec. 743.

743. In all criminal cases which may be removed from the Criminal
Court of Baltimore to the Circuit Court for Baltimore County and tried,
it may be lawful for the judge of said Circuit Court to allow to the
State's Attorney for Baltimore County, in addition to the sum allowed
by law, such compensation, not exceeding the sum of thirty dollars for
any one case, as the said judge may deem just and proper, to be levied
and collected from the City of Baltimore.

1892, ch. 77. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 379. 1916, sec. 606. 192'8, sec. 744.

744. All the offenses committed within the limits of Baltimore County,
except treason, misprison of treason, arson, burglary, larceny, manslaugh-
ter, mayhem, murder, rape, robbery, sodomy and all other felonies, may
be prosecuted, upon order of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County on
information, on behalf of the State, filed by the State's Attorney for said
county in said county.

Basta v. State, 133 Md. 570.

1892, ch. 77. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 380. 1916, sec. 607. 1928, sec. 745.

745. The clerk of said court shall, upon order of the State's Attorney
for said county, issue summons for witnesses to appear at the time and
place to be designated in said order, and the said court shall have the same
power as provided by Sections 7 and 8 of Article 35 of the Code of Public
General Laws of this State to secure and compel the attendance and tes-
timony of said witnesses, and all witnesses so summoned and appearing
and taking the oath hereinafter provided shall receive the same compen-
sation allowed to witnesses summoned and attending before the grand in-
quest for said county.

1892, ch. 77. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 381. 1916, sec. 608. 1928, sec. 746.

746. The State's Attorney shall investigate with all reasonable dis-
patch and thoroughness all cases which may be referred to him under this
subtitle and in all cases which, in his judgment, should not proceed to
trial shall promptly file in said court an order dismissing any such case
referred to him as aforesaid with a statement in writing of his reasons
therefor, and shall return to said court all papers and documents relating
to said case in his possession, and such dismissal of a case so referred to
him shall be a final and conclusive termination of the same; but the court
may, for sufficient reason shown in a reasonable time, strike out the said
order and dismissal of a case made by the State's Attorney and refer said
case to the grand jury.

1892, ch. 77. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 382. 1916, sec. 609. 1928, sec. 747.

747. The same pleading and practice and all provisions of law now
applicable to indictments and governing the trial of issues thereon shall