CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 1109

An. Code, sec. 406. 1904, sec. 358. 1888, sec. 227. 1692, ch. 16, sec. 2. 1894, ch. 262.

451. Any person who shall procure another to make a false oath or
affirmation in any of the cases embraced in the two preceding sections shall
be deemed guilty of subornation of perjury.

An. Code, sec. 407. 1904, sec. 359. 1888, sec. 228. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 8. 1894, ch. 262.

452. Every person who shall be convicted of perjury or subornation
of perjury shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the jail or penitentiary
for not more than ten years.
See notes to sec. 449.

Pneumatic Tire.

An. Code, sec. 408. 1904, sec. 360. 1896, ch. 437, secs. 1 and 2.

453. Whoever wilfully places or causes to be placed in or upon any
avenue, street, alley, road, highway or public way any tack, nail, piece of
iron, broken glass or other substance which may injure, cut or puncture
any pneumatic tire shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, to be tried before a
justice of the peace, and shall be fined not more than fifty dollars nor less
than five dollars, such fines to be collected as other fines are collected, and
when collected, to be paid into the road or street fund of the county or
municipal corporation in which they are collected. This section shall not
apply to Talbot or Wicomico counties.

Poison—Attempting to.

An. Code, sec. 409. 1904, sec. 361. 1888, sec. 229. 1840, ch. 222.

454. Every person, his aiders, advisers or abettors who shall be con-
victed of the crime of attempting to poison any person shall be sentenced
to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for not less than two nor more
than ten years.

An. Code, sec. 409A. 1917, ch. 8.

455. Every person, his aiders and abettors, who knowingly and wil-
fully poisons, defiles or in any way corrupts or contaminates the waters
of any well, spring, brook, lake, pond, stream, river, reservoir or other
source of water supply, or any tributary thereof, used or usable for drink-
ing or domestic purposes, by means of disease germs or bacteria or the
insertion of any other poison or poisonous matter therein, or attempts so
to do, or conspires or connives thereat, and every person, his aiders and
abettors, who, by like means, knowingly and wilfully poisons, defiles or
in any way corrupts or contaminates any drink, food or food products or
supply, or attempts so to do, or conspires or connives thereat, shall be
guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary for not more than twenty years, in the discretion
of the Court.

An. Code, sec. 410. 1904, sec. 362. 1902, ch. 586, sec. 1.

456. It shall be unlawful for any person, to retail any of the follow-
ing poisons: arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white pre-