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burning no higher or more conclusive proof shall be required than is
required at the trial of other criminal cases.
As to arson, see section 6, et seq.

Indictments—Selling Liquor.

1904, art. 27, sec. 446. 1890, ch. 429, sec. 288A. 1890, ch. 492, sec. 288A.

504. In any indictment for the unlawful sale or disposition of
spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer, it shall not be necessary
to specify the particular variety, provided the indictment sets forth an
unlawful sale or disposition of intoxicating liquor, but the defendant,
on application to the State's attorney before trial, may obtain a state-
ment of the particular variety of liquor expected to be proved.

This section is constitutional and valid. Keifer v. State, 87 Md. 564.

This section referred to in sustaining an indictment for a violation of a
local law for Harford County relative to the sale of liquor. Curry v. State,
117 Md. 590.

See sections 424, et seq., and 436, et seq.

Indictments—Violation of City or Town Ordinances.

Ibid. sec. 447. 1900, ch. 131, sec. 291C.

505. In every indictment for the violation of any ordinance of any
incorporated city or town of this State, it shall not be necessary to set
forth a copy of the said ordinance, or any particular section thereof;
but every such indictment shall be sufficient if it recites the number of
the ordinance alleged to have been violated, with the date of its pas-
sage, or if the ordinance has been embraced in a codification, if it refers
to the number of the article and section of such codification containing
such ordinance, and conforms to the rules of law governing the framing
of indictments for violation of acts of the general assembly of this
State, and concludes "against the form of the ordinance in such case
made and provided, and against the "peace, government and dignity of
the State."

1906, ch. 248.

506. In any indictment for murder or manslaughter, or for being
an accessory thereto, it shall not be necessary to set forth the manner
or means of death. It shall be sufficient to use a formula substantially
to the following effect: "That A. B., on the————day of———nine-
teen hundred and————, at the county aforesaid, feloniously (wilfully
and of deliberately premeditated malice aforethought) did kill (and
murder) C. D'.

As to murder, see section 362, et seq.

Sentence.

1904, art. 27, sec. 448. 1888, art. 27, sec. 292. 1860, art. 30, sec. 1,81. 1737, ch. 2.
1809, ch. 138, sec. 11. 1825, ch. 93.

507. All claims to dispensation from punishment by benefit of
clergy are forever abolished; and every person convicted of any felony
heretofore deemed clergy able shall be sentenced to undergo a" confine-