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a copy of the said ordinance, or any particular section thereof; but every
such indictment shall be sufficient if it recites the number of the ordinance
alleged to have been violated, with the date of its passage, or if the ordi-
nance has been embraced in a codification, if it refers to the number of the
article and section of such codification containing such ordinance, and
conforms to the rules of law governing the framing of indictments for
violation of acts of the general assembly of this State, and concludes
" against the form of the ordinance in such case made and provided, and
against the peace, government and dignity of the State."

Indictments—Murder or Manslaughter.

An. Code, sec. 506. 1906, ch. 248.

563. In any indictment for murder or manslaughter, or for being an
accessory thereto, it shall not be necessary to set forth the manner or means
of death. It shall be sufficient to use a formula substantially to the follow-
ing effect: " That A. B., on the————day of————nineteen hundred
and————, at the county aforesaid, feloniously (wilfully and of delib-
erately premeditated malice aforethought) did kill (and murder) C. D.
As to murder, see sec. 397, et seq.

Sentence.1

An. Code, sec. 507. 1904, sec. 448. 1888, sec. 292. 1737, ch. 2. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 11.

1825, ch. 93.

564. All claims to dispensation from punishment by benefit of clergy
are forever abolished; and every person convicted of any felony hereto-
fore deemed clergyable shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the
penitentiary for any time not less than eighteen months nor more than
five years, except in those cases where some other specific penalty is pre-
scribed by this code. And every person who shall be convicted of any
felony heretofore excluded from the benefit of clergy, and not specified in
this code, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary
for not less than five nor more than twenty years.

An. Code, sec. 508. 1904, sec. 449. 1888, sec. 293. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 16.

565. If any offender, on conviction, may be sentenced to suffer death,
the court before whom such offender shall be tried and convicted shall sen-
tence him to suffer death by hanging by the neck.
See sec. 405.

An. Code, sec. 509. 1904, sec. 450. 1888, sec. 294. 1858, ch. 131.

566. When a case has been removed for trial, and the party shall be
sentenced to be hung, the court shall remand him to the place where the
indictment was found, where the sentence shall be executed as if passed in
that place...
See sec. 405.
1 See art. 3, sec. 60, Md. Constitution.