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Procedure—Indictments—Amendment.

551.

To note to this section, page 1140, vol, 1, of Code, add State v. Barrett, 148
Md. 155.

Indictments—Statement of Ownership or Possession.

552.

This section referred to in construing sec. 551. See notes thereto. State v.
Barrett, 148 Md. 157.

Indictments—Quashing—Arrest of Judgment.

553.

Indictment not defective because it alleges time of offense as on or about
certain date; policy of this section. Brunner v. State, 154 Md. 657.

Nothing can be made the basis of motion in arrest of Judgment which is sub-
ject of demurrer. Act 1916, ch. 30, prohibiting sale of liquor in Washington
County. McCurdy v. State, 151 Md. 440.

Indictments—Conclusion of—Joinder of Counts.

554.

In prosecution for bastardy, evidence did not show commission of rape with
sufficient certainty to apply doctrine of merger, assuming that doctrine still
prevails in Maryland. Klein v. State. 151 Md. 491.

Indictments—Arson or Burning.

560. Repealed by ch. 255 of the Acts of 1929.

Indictments—Selling Liquor.

561.

This section referred to in sustaining indictment for violation of local liquor
law for Washington County. Evidence. Weller v. State, 150 Md. 281.

Indictments—Violation of City or Town Ordinances.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 562. 1912, sec. 505. 1904, sec. 447. 1900, ch. 131, sec. 291C.

1929, ch. 245.

562. In every indictment or warrant for the violation of any ordinance
of any incorporated city or town of this State or of the Board of County
Commissioners of any county of this State or of the Special Taxing Area
of any county of this State, it shall not be necessary to set forth a copy of
the said ordinance, or any particular section thereof; but every such indict-
ment or warrant 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 or war-
rants for violation of Acts of the General Assembly of this State, and con-
cludes "against the form of the ordinance in such case made and provided,
and against the peace, government and dignity of the State. "