984 ARTICLE 27.

than two years; and in cases of conviction, if it shall appear from the evi-
dence that such weapon was carried, concealed as aforesaid or openly, with
the deliberate purpose of injuring the person or destroying the life of
another, the court, or justice of the peace, presiding in the case, shall impose
the highest sentence of imprisonment hereinbfore prescribed.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the carrying of any
of the weapons mentioned in the preceding paragraph of this section by an
officer of this State, or of any County or City therein, who is entitled or
required to carry such weapon as part of his official equipment, or by any
conservator of the peace, who is entitled or required to carry such weapon
as part of his official equipment, or by any officer or conservator of the peace
of some other State temporarily sojourning in this State, or by any special
agent of a railway, or by any person who shall carry such weapon as a
reasonable precaution against apprehended danger, but the tribunal before
which any case arising under the provisions of this section may be tried,
shall have the right to judge of the reasonableness of the carrying of any
such weapon, and the proper occasion therefor, under the evidence in
the case.

All prosecutions for violations of the provisions of this section may be
either upon presentment and indictment in any court having criminal
jurisdiction in this State, or by trial before any justice of the peace in and
for the County or city where the offense occurs, and jurisdiction original
and concurrent with the said courts having criminal jurisdiction is hereby
given to the said justices of the peace, and they shall have power to issue all
processes and do all Acts which may be necessary for the exercise of said
jurisdiction, and may try and determine all such cases and may pronounce
judgment and impose sentence therein to the same extent as the aforesaid
courts having criminal jurisdiction could do in such cases, if such cases
were tried before such court without a jury; provided, however, that if any
person, when brought before any such justice having jurisdiction of the
case, shall, before the trial for the alleged offense, pray a jury trial, or if
the State's Attorney for the County or city where the offense occurs shall,
before the trial of such alleged offense, pray a jury trial on behalf of the
State, it shall be the duty of such justice to' commit such alleged offender
for trial, or to hold him to bail to appear for trial in the court having
criminal jurisdiction in the case, at its then or next session, and to return
said commitment or recognizance, with the names and residences of the
witnesses for the prosecution endorsed thereon, forthwith to the Clerk of
such court; and the justice of the peace before whom the accused is brought
for trial shall inform him seasonably of his right to demand a trial by jurv.

Since this section gives no right of appeal from the circuit court, no appeal lies
if that court had jurisdiction. Fact that traverser is -not tried at term of court to
which papers are transmitted, does not defeat court's jurisdiction. Starliper v. State,
126 Md. 297.

Conspiracy.

An. Code, sec. 40. 1904, sec. 34. 1888, sec. 31. 1884, ch. 266.

43. An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or
procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dis-