CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 1047

Fraud—Neglect to Deliver Draft, etc., for Merchandise Stored.

An. Code, see. 210. 1904, sec. 195. 1890, ch. 223, sec. 119A.

236. If any person entrusted with any money, drafts or checks, as
advances against any grain or other merchandise purchased and stored in
any elevator in the city of Baltimore or elsewhere, and for which certifi-
cates or receipts have been turned into such elevator or delivered to the
parties with whom the same is stored to be shipped and transported from
the city of Baltimore to the purchaser of said grain or other merchandise,
shall for his own benefit and in violation of good faith neglect or* refuse
to deliver to the party so entrusting him with said money, drafts or checks,
the draft or bills of exchange, with the documents for the shipment of the
said cargo of grain or other merchandise, and the policies of insurance
upon said grain or other merchandise, as soon as the shipment is com-
pleted and bills of lading delivered therefor, every such offender shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be imprisoned
in the penitentiary not more than ten years nor less than one year, or be
fined not more than five thousand dollars nor less than five hundred, or
shall be both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid, in the discretion of the
court.

Fraud—Wood Alcohol.

An. Code, sec. 211. 1904, sec. 196. 1904, ch. 470, sec. 119B.

237. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of mak-
ing, manufacturing, compounding or dispensing drugs, medicines, medici-
nal or chemical preparations for human consumption, who shall in person
or by his, their or its agents or employes, make, mix, manufacture, com-
pound, dispense, sell, or deliver to any person, any drug, medicine, medici-
nal or chemical preparation, intended for internal use, wherein ethyl, or
grain alcohol usually enters as part of, or is in anywise employed in the
making, mixing or manufacture, compounding or preparation of such
drug, medicine, medicinal or chemical preparation; and who shall, in the
making, mixing, manufacturing or compounding of such drug, medicine
or medicinal or chemical preparation, substitute or use, in part or in
whole, methyl, or wood alcohol, in place and stead of ethyl, or grain alco-
hol, or who shall in any manner put or introduce methyl, or wood alcohol,
into such drug, medicine, medicinal or chemical preparation, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine
of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars,
or by not less than three months nor more than twelve months imprison-
ment, or by both, in the discretion of the court.

Contention in a civil suit that defendants had violated this section, overruled
where there was no evidence that they mixed, made, manufactured or compounded
whiskey sold plaintiff, or that they introduced wood alcohol into it. Flaccomio v.
Eysink, 129 Md. 380.

Fugitive Convicts.

An. Code, sec. 212. 1904, sec. 197. 1888, sec. 120. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 7.

238. Any person who has been convicted and condemned to serve and
labor as a criminal, and who may escape and be found in this State, shall