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tenced to the penitentiary for not less than six years nor more
than twenty years.

JURISDICTION.

88. If any person be feloniously stricken or poisoned in one
county, and die of the same stroke or poison in another county
within one year thereafter, the offender shall be tried in the
court within whose jurisdiction such county lies where the stroke
or poison was given; and in like manner an accessory to murder
or felony committed, shall be tried by the court within whose
jurisdiction such person became accessory.

89. If a person be feloniously stricken or poisoned on the
waters of the Chesapeake Bay, and not within the body of any
county, and within one year thereafter die of the same stroke
or poison within any county of this State, or if any person be
feloniously stricken or poisoned in any county of this State, and
within one year thereafter die of the same stroke or poison on
the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, and not within the body of
any county, the offender, his aiders, abettors and comforters, or
any person accessory thereto, shall be tried in the court within
whose jurisdiction such county lies where the death happened,
or the stroke or poison was given.

90. Any person who shall commit any crime, offence or mis-
demeanor upon the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, within the
limits of this State, and without the body of any county thereof,
and all aiders, abettors, comforters and accessories thereof and
thereto, may be indicted and tried in any court of this State
having jurisdiction of similar crimes, offences and misdemeanors,
of the county in which he may be arrested, or into which he
may be first brought.

91. Any person presented or indicted, may, instead of travers-
ing the same before a jury, traverse the same before the court,
who shall thereupon try the law and the facts.

KIDNAPPING.

92. Every person, his counsellors, aiders or abettors, who shall
be convicted of the crime of kidnapping, and forcibly or fraudu-
lently carrying, or causing to be carried out of this State, any
free person, or any person entitled to freedom at or after a cer-
tain age, period or contingency, or of arresting and imprisoning