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The Maryland Code : Public General Laws and Public Local Laws, 1860
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238 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 30.

the county in which the same shall be committed, commanding
him to bring such offender before him, or any other justice of
the peace for said county, who shall recognize him in the sum
of two thousand dollars, with good and sufficient security—or
in case of neglect or refusal, then to commit such offender to
prison, to take his trial at the next court having competent
jurisdiction.

MURDER.

137. All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of
poison, or lying in wait, or by any kind of wilful, deliberate and
premeditated killing, shall be murder in the first degree.

138. All murder which shall be committed in the perpetration
of, or attempt to perpetrate any arson, shall be murder in the
first degree.

139. All murder which shall be committed in the burning or
attempting to burn any barn, tobacco house, stable, warehouse
or other out house, not parcel of any dwelling house, having
therein any tobacco, hay, grain, horses, cattle, goods, wares or
merchandise, shall be murder in the first degree.

140. All murder which shall be committed in the perpetration
of, or attempt to perpetrate any rape, sodomy, mayhem, robbery
or burglary, shall be murder in the first degree.

141. All murder which shall be committed by any person in
arresting and imprisoning, or attempting to arrest and imprison,
any free person, or person entitled to freedom at or after a
certain age, period or contingency, with intent forcibly to carry,
or to cause to be carried out of this State, the person so as afore-
said free or entitled to freedom as aforesaid, shall be murder in
the first degree; Provided, the person offending as aforesaid,
shall know that the person so arrested and imprisoned is free or
entitled to freedom as aforesaid.

142. All other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the
second degree.

143. And the jury before whom any person indicted for mur-
der shall be tried, shall, if they find such person guilty thereof,
ascertain in their verdict whether it be murder in the first or
second degree; but if such person be convicted by confession,

 

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