474 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

not less than eighteen nor more than twenty-one years, who shall be con-
victed of any offense punishable in adults by confinement in the peni-
tentiary, other than those specified in the preceding section.

1904, art. 27, sec. 454. 1SSS, art. 27, sec. 298. 1860, art. 30, sec. 187.
1854, ch. 155, sec. 2.

513. It shall be the duty of every court having criminal jurisdic-
tion to examine into the character of all infants convicted of offenses.
for which they may be bound as apprentices under the preceding sec-
tion, and to exercise a sound discretion in determining whether the
said infant so convicted should be bound out in accordance with existing;
laws, or should be sentenced to the penitentiary in the same manner
with adults convicted of like crimes, and to bind out or sentence such
infants accordingly.

Ibid. sec. 455. 1888, art. 27, sec. 299. 1860. art. 30, sec. 188.
1836, ch. 156, sec. 2.

514. It shall be the duty of the courts of this State in sentencing
convicts to the penitentiary to sentence them for such a period as will
expire between the first day of April and the last day of August if they
shall deem it expedient to do so.

Ibid. sec. 456. 1888, art. 27. sec. 300... 1860, art. 30, sec. 189. 1825, ch. 93,

sec. 1. 1839, ch. 37.

515. The courts of this State in sentencing convicts to the peniten-
tiary in compliance with the provisions of the preceding section may in
their discretion sentence them to be confined in the said penitentiary
for a period not less than eighteen months in cases where the least
punishment prescribed for the offense is two years.

Ibid. sec. 457. 1888, art. 27, sec. 301. 1860, art. 30, sec. 190.
1809, ch. 138, sec. 10.

516. No conviction or attainder shall work corruption of blood or
forfeiture of estate; the estate of such persons as shall destroy their own
lives shall descend or vest as in case of natural death; if any person be
killed by casualty there shall be no forfeiture in consequence thereof;
an approver shall never'be admitted in any case whatsoever, and a sen-
tence of death shall not be executed in less than twenty days after judg-
ment.

Ibid. sec. 458. 1888. art. 27, sec. 302. 1860, art. 30, sec. 191.
1809, ch. 138, sec. 22.

517. The real and personal estate of the person convicted and sen-
tenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary, or to be executed,
shall, after paying the retribution and reparation to the party injured,
be liable to the discharge of the expenses incurred by the State in the
apprehension, prosecution, conviction and removal of such criminal,
and in order to ascertain the amount thereof the court before whom such
offender is convicted shall cause its clerk to certify to the warden of