162 ARTICLE 27.

to the owner thereof the thing robbed or taken, or shall pay him the full
value thereof, and be sentenced to imprisonment in the Maryland Peniten-
tiary for not more than twenty years.

Telegraphs and Telephones—Injury to.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 488. 1912, sec. 440. 1904, sec. 388. 1888, sec. 261.
1868, ch. 471, sec. 134. 1929, ch. 308.

488. Any person who shall unlawfully and intentionally injure, molest
or destroy any of the lines, posts, piers or abutments, or the materials or
property connected with the working of any telegraph or telephone lines,
shall on conviction thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be pun-
ished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in
the county or city jail not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of
the court before which the conviction shall be had.

Telegraphs and Telephones.

489.

This section referred to in discussing admissibility in a criminal case of evi-
dence obtained by tapping telephone wires. Olmstead v. United. States, 277 U.
S. 479, 72 L. Ed. 957.

Theatrical Exhibitions—Waitresses.

490-491. Repealed by ch. 566 of the Acts of 1927.

Trees—Destruction of.

525.

Offense under this section. See notes to sec. 318. Stansbury v. Luttrell, 152
Md. 561.

Turnpikes.

526. Repealed by ch. 562 of the Acts of 1927.

Wages—Payment by Certain Corporations.

532. Repealed by ch. 241 of the Acts of 1929.
See art. 23, sec. 151.

II.

JURISDICTION, PROCEDURE AND SENTENCE.
Jurisdiction.

541.

As to jurisdiction over crimes in connection with aeronautics, see art. 1A,
sec. 7.

549.

This section referred to in holding that admission of evidence of another rob
bery in prosecution for murder during robbery, is ground of reversal. Duties
and functions of court sitting as jury; prejudice. Dobbs v. State, 148 Md. 47.