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1929 Supplement to the Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland
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LICENSES. 337

willingness to appear before the Justice of the Peace, Police Justice, or
Justice of the Peace of the Traffic Court if in Baltimore City, named in
said summons on the day named therein, by endorsing his name and ad-
dress on said summons, and failing so to appear, the said Justice of the
Peace, Police Justice, or Justice of the Peace of the Traffic Court, as the
case may be, before whom said summons is made returnable, shall forth-
with issue to the Sheriff of the county or City of Baltimore, as the case
may be, where the person so summoned resides, a warrant for the arrest
of said person, which warrant shall be executed in due course by the Sheriff
to whom directed and the person so arrested shall be delivered by the said
Sheriff on the day named therein for the return of the writ to the Justice
of the Peace, Police Justice or Justice of the Peace of the Traffic Court
issuing said warrant. All costs and expenses incurred by the Sheriff in
the execution of said warrant shall be assessed against and collected from
the person so arrested by the Justice of the Peace, Police or Justice or
Justice of the Peace of the Traffic Court to whom said writ is returnable,
and by him remitted to the Sheriff who shall have executed said warrant.
But no person shall have the right to demand and receive a summons as
hereinbefore provided in the following cases:

(a) In case of arrest for violation of Section 197 of this Article.

(b) In case the operator of said automobile cannot identify himself to
the officer making the arrest as the owner or proper custodian of said auto-
mobile, either by means of his operators card or other satisfactory identifi-
cation to said officer.

(c) In any case where there is an accident resulting in personal in-
juries, which in the judgment of the officer making the arrest requires
immediate detention of the operator of said automobile.

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 Balti-
more 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; provided, however, that within ten days from the date of judg-
ment, a written order of appeal signed by the convicted person, or his
attorney, be filed with the Justice of the Peace, committing Magistrate or
Police Justice, by whom the judgment or sentence has been imposed. 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


 

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