ART. 27] CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. . 343

Duelling.

1904, art. 27, sec. 97. 1888, art. 27, sec. 69. 1860, art. 30, sec. 43.
1816, ch. 219, sec. 1.

106. 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
inflict such wound as that the person injured shall die thereof within
twelve months and a day thereafter, such offender, his aiders, abettors
and counsellors, being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to undergo
a confinement in the penitentiary for not less than five nor more than
eighteen years.

Ibid. sec. 98. 1888, art. 27, sec. 70. 1860, art. 30, sec. 44. 1816, ch. 219, sec. 6.

107. 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.

Ibid. sec. 99. 1888, art 27, sec. 71. 1860, art. 30, sec. 45. 1816, ch. 219, sec. 5.

108. When any judge or justice of the peace has good cause to sus-
pect that any person is about to be engaged in a duel, he may issue his
warrant to bring such person before him; and if he shall think proper
to take of him a recognizance to keep the peace, he shall insert in the
condition that such person shall not, during the time for which he is
bound, directly or indirectly, be concerned in a duel, either with the
persons suspected or any other person, within the time limited by the
recognizance.

Embezzling Property and Writings.

Ibid. sec. 100. 1888, art. 27, sec. 72. 1860, art. 30, sec. 46. 1715, ch. 11. ,

1809, ch. 138, sec. 8:

109. Every person convicted of wilfully or corruptly embezzling,
stealing, withdrawing, impairing, razing or altering any will, testa-
ment, codicil, patent, deed, or assignment of a patent, writ, return,
record, or parcel of the same, within this State, whereby the estate cir
right of any person shall or may be defeated, injured or any way
altered, shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than three nor
more than seven years.

Cited but not construed in Dick v. State, 107 Md. 15.

As to defaulters, see section 73.

As to indictments for embezzlement, see section 502.

Ibid. sec. 101. 1888, art. 27, sec. 73. 1860, art. 30, see. 47.
1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 2, sec. 1.

110. If any person to whom a will or codicil shall be delivered by
the party making it for safe custody shall destroy the same without
the direction of the said party, or wilfully secrete it for the space of
six months after the death of the party shall be known to him, on con-