CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 1147

cretion sentence them to be confined in the said penitentiary for a period
not less than eighteen months in cases where the least punishment pre-
scribed for the offense is two years.

See art. 3, seo. 60, Md. Constitution.

An. Code, sec. 516. 1904, sec. 457. 1888, sec. 301. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 10.

573. No conviction or attainder shall work corruption of blood or for-
feiture of estate; the estate of such persons as shall destroy their own lives
shall descend or vest as in case of natural death; if any person be killed
by casualty there shall be no forfeiture in consequence thereof; an ap-
prover shall never be admitted in any case whatsoever, and a sentence, of
death shall not be executed in less than twenty days after judgment.

An. Code, sec. 517. 1904, sec. 458. 1888, sec. 302. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 22.

574. The real and personal estate of the person convicted and sen-
tenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary, or to be executed,
shall, after paying the retribution and reparation to the party injured, be
liable to the discharge of the expenses incurred by the State in the appre-
hension, prosecution, conviction and removal of such criminal, and in order
to ascertain the amount thereof the court before whom such offender is
convicted shall cause its clerk to certify to the warden of the penitentiary
the amount of reparation adjudged and all costs and charges incurred in
the prosecution and conviction of such offender, which the warden shall
enter in books to be by him kept for that purpose.

An. Code, sec. 518. 1904, sec. 459. 1888, sec. 303. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 23.

575. In all cases where restitution or reparation is adjudged to be
made to the party injured and immediate restitution or reparation is not
fully made, the court before whom the offender is convicted shall, at the
instance of the party injured, issue execution against the property of such
convicted person in the name of the person injured for the value of the
property taken, or so much thereof as is not restored, such value to be
estimated by the said court; but nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to deprive the party injured from having and maintaining a civil
action against such offender, either before or after conviction, or against
any other person, for the recovery of the money received or property taken,
or the value thereof.

Where money and bonds have been stolen by A from B, B's remedy is in a civil
action under this section, and not by bill in equity. Fletcher v. Hooper, 32 Md. 213.

An. Code, sec. 519. 1904, sec. 460. 1888, sec. 304. 1853, ch. 175, sec. 1.

576. If any person who has removed his trial shall be convicted of any
offense punishable by fine or imprisonment, the court shall (if the sen-
tence be imprisonment) sentence him to confinement in the jail of the
county or city from which such removal took place; and it shall be the duty
of the sheriff of the county or city where such conviction may be had to
place the person convicted in the custody of the sheriff of the county or
city in which the indictment was found, together with a certified copy of
the docket entries in the case.