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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924
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1008 ARTICLE 27.

the crimes, offenses or misdemeanors as defined by this section may b'e
arrested, tried and convicted, as herein provided, in any county or city in
this State, from, to or through which the said street car, electric car, rail-
road car, passenger train, or other public conveyance may run, or into which
he may be brought by said car or other public conveyance; or in any county
or city in the State in which he may be found after said crimes, offenses or
misdemeanors have been committed. And any person who shall commit any
of the crimes, misdemeanors or offenses herein mentioned upon any steam-
boat, upon the waters of the Chesapeake bay, within the limits of .this State,
and without the body of any county thereof, may be tried in any court or
before any justice of the peace of this State having jurisdiction of similar
crimes, offenses and misdemeanors of the county in which he may be
arrested or into which he may be first brought.

Drunkenness and Disorderly Conduct.

An. Code, sec. 103. 1904, sec. 95. 1888, sec. 68. 1892, ch. 672. 1902, ch. 215. 1904, ch. 118.

1924, ch. 416.

120. Every person who shall be found drunk, or acting in a disorderly
manner, to the disturbance of the public peace, upon any public street or
highway, in any city, town or county, in this State, or at any place of public
worship or public resort or amusement in any city, town or county of this
State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be subject to a fine or 1 not less than one dollar and not more
than twenty-five dollars, and costs of prosecution, and when said fine and
costs are not paid, the party so convicted shall be committed to the county
jail for a term not exceeding thirty days or until discharged in due course
of law. The Justices of the Peace of the respective counties of this State
shall have concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with the Circuit Court
for their respective counties; and Justices of the Peace selected to sit at
the respective station houses in the City of Baltimore shall have concurrent
jurisdiction over such offense with the Criminal Court of Baltimore City.
Prosecutions for drunkenness must be brought within one month—art. 57, sec. 12.

An. Code, sec. 104. 1914, ch. 542.

121. Any person who shall enter upon the land or premises of any
other person, whether such person be the owner or lessee of said land or
premises, and wilfully act in a disorderly manner by making loud and
unseemly noises, or by profanely cursing or swearing or using obscene
language while thereon, shall upon conviction thereof be sentenced to pay
a fine of not less than one dollar and not more than twenty-five dollars, and
to the costs of the prosecution; and the several justices of the peace of this
State shall have concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with the Circuit
Courts for their respective Counties; and when said fine and costs are not
paid, the parties so convicted shall be committed to the County jail for a
term not exceeding thirty days or until discharged in due course of law;
provided, however., that the provisions of this Section shall only apply to
Montgomery County and Prince George's County.
1 Evidently a typographical error.

 

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