LICENSES. 2021

obliterated or defaced, after which the mark or number so assigned shall
be regarded as the one thereafter properly to be used within the meaning of
this section.

PART V.

Enforcement of Motor Vehicle Laws—Arrest, Bail, Trial

and Appeal.

An. Code, sec. 158. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 158.

204. In case any person shall be taken into custody because of a
violation of any of the provisions of this sub-title, he shall forthwith be
taken in the counties of this State before the nearest Justice of the Peace,
committing Magistrate or Police Justice, or if in Baltimore City before
the Justice of the Peace of the Traffic Court, and be entitled to an
immediate hearing; and if such hearing cannot then be had, he shall be
released from custody on giving bond or undertaking executed by a fidelity
or surety company authorized to give such bonds in this State, or by a
person or persons acceptable as surety or sureties by said magistrate or
police justice, such bond or undertaking to be in an amount equal to the
maximum amount prescribed as the fine for such offense, and to be condi-
tioned for his appearance at the time and place set for the hearing of the
charges preferred against him, or on giving his personal undertaking to
appear as aforesaid secured by the deposit of a sum equal to the maximum
amount prescribed as the fine for such offense, and in such case bond or
undertaking shall not be given or deposit made as aforesaid, the provisions
of law in reference to bail in cases of misdemeanor shall apply. In all _
complaints of the violation of any of the provisions of this sub-title, except
as provided in section 206 hereof, the Justice of the Peace, committing
Magistrate or Police Justice before whom the alleged offender is taken
as aforesaid, shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such complaint
and impose the fine or sentence herein provided, but any person so convicted
of any offense under this sub-title shall have the right to appeal from the
judgment of such Justice of the Peace, committing Magistrate or Police
Justice to the Criminal Court of Baltimore, if convicted in Baltimore City,
or court of criminal jurisdiction of any county in which he may be so
convicted, and such court on such appeal shall hear the case de novo, pro-
vided, however, that such appeal be taken within ten days from the date
of judgment. Upon appeal being prayed as aforesaid it shall be the duty
of the magistrate to endorse upon the papers " appeal prayed," and
transmit the same to the proper court as aforesaid. It shall not be necessary .
in such case, for the Grand Jury to find either presentment or indictment
nor shall formal pleadings be required, but the trial of all such cases on
appeal shall be had upon the original papers transmitted to said court by
the Justice of the Peace, committing Magistrate or Police Justice as
aforesaid, the defendant or traverser upon such appeal being entitled to
have a jury trial. In the event of such appeal, the judgment or sentence
so appealed from shall be stayed by the giving of security as hereinbefore
provided for, but in case such security be not given, the fine and costs