1120 ARTICLE 27.

This section held to have no application to members of social club who obtain
liquor at the club by paying into common fund the price fixed by such club. Seim
v. State, 55 Md. 567. And see Conococheague Club v. State, 116 Md. 322.

Special plea to indictment under this section held insufficient; evidence. Lansman
v. State, 142 Md. 399.

This section held to be in force in Anne Arundel county notwithstanding act of
1886, ch. 383; indictment sustained., Flood v. State, 103 Md. 692.
Suffering persons to bet upon games of cards in a tavern on the Sabbath, held
a violation of act of 1723, ch. 16, sec. 11. State v. Pearson, 2 Md. 312.

This section referred-to in construing art. 56, sec. 110—see notes thereto. Seick v.
State, 94 Md. 72.

See notes to sec. 483.

An. Code, sec. 438. 1904, sec. 386. 1888. sec. 249. 1834, ch. 244. 1847, ch. 193. 1866, ch. 66.

1874, ch. 71.

485. It shall not be lawful to keep open or use any dancing saloon,
opera house, ten pin alley, barber saloon or ball alley within this State on
the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday; and any person or persons, or
body politic or corporate, who shall violate any provision of this section, or
cause or knowingly permit the same to be violated by a person or persons in
his, her or its employ shall be liable to indictment in any court of this
State having criminal jurisdiction, and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars,
in the discretion of the court, for the first offense; and if convicted a second
time for a violation of this section, the person or persons, or body politic or
corporate shall be fined a sum not less than one hundred nor more than five
hundred dollars; and if a natural person shall be imprisoned, not less than
ten nor more than thirty days in the discretion of the court; and in the case
of any conviction or convictions under this section subsequent to the
second, such person or persons, body politic or corporate shall be fined on
each occasion a sum at least double that imposed upon him, her, them or it
on the last preceding conviction; and if a natural person, shall be impris-
oned not less than thirty nor more than sixty days in the discretion of the
court; all fines to be imposed under this section shall be paid to the State.

Indictment should name the person to whom liquor was sold, or state that pur-
chaser was unknown to jurors. The particular Sunday upon which the liquor was
sold need not be stated in indictment. Capritz v. State, 1 Md. 573.

See notes to secs. 483 and 484.

Sodomy.

An. Code, sec. 439. 1904, sec. 387. 1888, sec. 250. 1793, ch. 57, sec. 10. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 4.

486. Every person convicted of the crime of sodomy shall be sentenced
to the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than ten years.

An assault with intent to commit sodomy, held to be punishable by act of 1793,
ch. 57. In indictment for sodomy, it is unnecessary to lay the carnaliter cognovit.
Davis v. State, 3 H. & J. 157.

An. Code, sec. 439A. 1916, ch. 616.

487. Every person who shall be convicted of taking into his or her
mouth the sexual organ of any other person or animal, or who shall be
convicted of placing his or her sexual organ in the mouth of any other
person or animal, or who shall be convicted of committing any other un-
natural or perverted sexual practice with any other person or animal, shall