ART. 27] SENTENCE. 473 .

ment in the penitentiary for any time not less than eighteen months
nor more than five years, except in those cases where some other specific
penalty is prescribed by this code. And every person who shall be con-
victed of any felony heretofore excluded from the benefit of clergy, and
not specified in this code, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement
in the penitentiary for not less than five nor more than twenty years.

1904, art. 27, sec. 449. 1888, art. 27. sec. 293. 1860, art. 30, sec. 182.
1809, ch. 138, sec. 16.

508. If any offender, on conviction, may be sentenced to suffer
death, the court before whom such offender shall be tried and convicted
shall sentence him to suffer death by hanging by the neck.

Ibid. sec. 450. 1888, art. 27, sec. 294. 1860, art. 30, sec. 183. 1858, ch. 131.

509. When a case has been removed for trial, and the party shall be
sentenced to be hung, the court shall remand him to the place where
the indictment was found, where the sentence shall be executed as if
passed in that place.

Ibid. see. 451. 1888, art. 27, sec. 295. 1860, art. 30, sec. 184.
1831, ch. 208, sec. 2.

510. When any infant under the age of fifteen years shall be con-
victed of any offense other than those mentioned in the succeeding sec-
tion the court may suspend the sentence upon such convicted infant and
bind him or her to some person residing in or out of this State, or may
procure other employment for such infant in or out of this State, and
shall have power to compel such infant to comply with the terms of its
judgment; but such infant shall not be bound to service in the county
or city where the conviction was had, nor for a term extending beyond
the age of eighteen years in females and twenty-one in males.

Ibid. sec. 452. 1888, art. 27, sec. 296. 1860, art. 30, sec. 185. 1854, ch. 155,
sec. 1. 1888, ch. 438.

511. All infants over twelve and under the age of fifteen years who
may be convicted of mayhem, murder in the second degree, man-
slaughter, assault with intent to commit murder or mayhem, or of
setting fire to any building, tenement, or property, the setting fire to
which is punishable by confinement in the penitentiary in the case of
adults, shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for the said crime in the
same manner as if they were of full age, or in the discretion of the
court may be confined in the house of refuge or Saint Mary's industrial
school, or house of reformation and instruction for colored children.

Ibid. sec. 453. 1888, art. 27, sec. 297. 1860, art. 30, sec 186.
1854, ch. 155, sec. 3.

512. Any court in this State having criminal jurisdiction may bind
out to the managers of any house of refuge or other institution under
police regulations within the limits of the State all infants over twelve
and under the age of fifteen years, until they shall arrive at an age of