BALTIMORE COUNTY. 661

a charge of selling any sort of intoxicating liquors or beverages on Sun-
day, or to minors, or without license, or within any limit, precinct or dis-
trict prohibited by law, all of which acts or commissions are hereby de-
clared to be criminal offenses, and the said justices shall have power to-
issue all process and to do all acts which may be necessary to the exercise-
of their jurisdiction, and may try and determine all cases whereof they
may have jurisdiction, and may pronounce judgment, sentence therein, in
the same manner and to the same extent as the Circuit Court in said
county could in such cases, if such cases were tried before it without the
intervention of a jury; provided, however, that if any person brought
before any justice having jurisdiction of the case shall, before trial for
the alleged offense, pray a jury trial on the part of the State, it shall be
the duty of any justice to commit such alleged offender for trial in the
Circuit Court for said county at its then session, if it then be in session,
or at its next session, if it be not then in session, and to return said com-
mitment or recognizance, with the names and residence of the witnesses.
for the prosecution indorsed thereon, forthwith to the clerk of the said
court; provided, the justice before whom the case is for trial shall inform,
the person charged of his right to a jury trial, and, should such person
waive a jury trial and demand a trial before such justice, then it shall
be the duty of the said justice of the peace to forthwith notify the State's-
Attorney for said county of the name of such person and the character'
of the charges against him, and said justice shall not proceed to try said
case within a less period than seven days from the date of sending the
notifications, unless he should sooner receive information from said State's
Attorney, also waiving a jury trial therein, in which event he may pro-
ceed to try such case within seven clays from said notification; provided,
however, that this section shall not apply to any justice of the peace for
the Twelfth Election District, except the station house justice for said
district, which said justices other than the station house justice shall not
exercise any criminal jurisdiction, except as set forth in Section 397.

1929, ch. 313, sec. 316A.

396A. In all cases in which any person is tried and committed before
any justice of the peace in Baltimore County, and sentenced by him to<
any imprisonment (other than imprisonment in default of payment of
fines and/or to any fine of over $50, exclusive of costs), he may within
ten days after sentence, exclusive of the day of sentence, pray an appeal
to the Circuit Court of Baltimore County upon waiving his right to plead
on the trial of said appeal in said Circuit Court his former jeopardy
resulting from his said trial and conviction before said justice, no formal
waiver of said right to plead said former jeopardy shall be necessary; and
a prayer for an appeal under this section to said Circuit Court shall be-
construed as a waiver of said right to plead said former jeopardy, and
in the event of such appeal being so prayed, the said justice shall forth-
with endorse on the commitment the fact of an appeal being prayed, to-
gether with a list of the names and addresses of the witnesses for the State,