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for their respective counties; and Justices of the Peace selected to sit at
the respective station houses in the City of Baltimore shall have concurrent
jurisdiction over such offense with the Criminal Court of Baltimore City.
Prosecutions for drunkenness must be brought within one month—art. 57, sec. 12.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 121. 1912, sec. 104. 1914, ch. 542. 1935, ch. 29.

132. Any person who shall enter upon the land or premises of any
other person, whether such person be the owner or lessee of said land or
premises, and wilfully act in a disorderly manner by making loud and
unseemly noises, or by profanely cursing or swearing or using obscene
language while thereon, shall upon conviction thereof be sentenced to pay
a fine of not less than one dollar and not more than twenty-five dollars,
and to the costs of prosecution; and the several justices of the peace of
this State shall have concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with the
Circuit Courts for their respective Counties; and when said fine and costs
are not paid, the parties so convicted shall be committed to the County
jail for a term not exceeding thirty days or until discharged in due course
of law; provided, however, that the provisions of this Section shall only
apply to Charles County, Montgomery County and Prince George's County.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 122. 1912, sec. 105. 1904, sec. 96. 1890, ch. 523, sec. 68A.

133. Any person who shall keep a disorderly house shall on convic-
tion thereof be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than
three hundred dollars, or to imprisonment in jail for not less than ten days
nor more than six months, or to both fine and imprisonment.

This section only deals with the punishment and not with the definition of the com-
mon law offense. Lutz v. State, 167 Md. 17.

This section held to have no application to offense committed prior to its passage.
Where a party has been convicted of a common law offense prior to passage of statute
punishing same offense, he is liable to the common law penalty; but where a statute
which creates an offense is repealed (without a saving clause), a conviction cannot be
had on a crime committed prior to the repeal. Ex post facto laws. Beard v. State,
74 Md. 131 (see now, however, art. 1, sec. 3, of Code).

Cited in Jackson v. State, Daily Record, Apr. 10, 1939.

Duelling.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 123. 1912, sec. 106. 1904, sec. 97. 1888, sec. 69. 1816, ch. 219, sec. 1.

134. Any person who shall wilfully and maliciously, or by previous
agreement, fight a duel or single combat with any engine, instrument or
weapon, the probable consequence of which may be the death of either
party, and in doing so shall kill his antagonist or any other person, or in-
flict such wound as that the person injured shall die thereof within twelve
months and a day thereafter, such offender, his aiders, abettors and coun-
sellors, being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to undergo a confine-
ment in the penitentiary for not less than five or more than eighteen years.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 124. 1912, sec. 107. 1904, sec. 98. 1888, sec. 70. 1816, ch. 219, sec. 6.

135. If any person shall, for the purpose of eluding the provisions of
the preceding section, leave the State, the person so offending shall be
deemed as guilty and be subject to the like penalties as if the offense had
been committed within this State.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 125. 1912, sec. 108. 1904, sec. 99. 1888, sec. 71. 1816, ch. 219, sec. 5.

136. When any judge or justice of the peace has good cause, to suspect
that any person is about to be engaged in a duel, he may issue his warrant