CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 313

Bawdy Houses and Houses of Ill-Fame.

20.

Ch. 737, acts of 1920. did not repeal the common law as to keeping bawdy
houses. Lutz v. State. 167 Md. 32.

21.

See notes to sec. 20.

Bribery.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 31. 1912, sec. 78. 1904, ch. 26. 1888, sec. 23. 1809, ch. 138,
sec. 8. 1868, ch. 369. 1S82, ch. 142. 1983, ch. 202.

31. If any person shall bribe or attempt to bribe any executive officer
of the State of Maryland, any judge, justice of the peace or other judicial
officer of this State, any member or officer of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, any officer or employee of the State, or of any county, municipality
or other political subdivision of the State, including members of the police
force of Baltimore City and the motorcycle deputies (commonly known as
State Police) under the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, ¹ or any member
or officer of any municipal corporation of this State, or any executive officer
of such corporation, in order to influence any such officer or person in the
performance of any of his official duties and if the Governor or other
executive officer of this State, any judge, justice of the peace or other
judicial officer of this State, any member of the General Assembly of
Maryland or officer thereof, any officer or any employee of the State, or
of any county, municipality or other political subdivision of the State,
including members of the police force of Baltimore City and the motor-
cycle deputies (commonly known as State Police) under the Commis-
sioner of Motor Vehicles, or any member or officer of any municipal corpo-
ration, or Mayor or other executive officer thereof in this State shall de-
mand or receive any bribe, fee, reward or testimonial for the purpose of

influencing him in the performance of his official duties, or for neglecting
or failing to perform the same every such person so bribing or attempting

to bribe any of such officers or persons, and every such person so demand-
ing or receiving any bribe, fee, reward, or testimonial shall be deemed
guilty of bribery, and on being convicted thereof shall be fined not less than
one hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or, in the dis-
cretion of the court, shall be sentenced to be imprisoned in the penitentiary
of this State for not less than two nor more than twelve years, or both
fined and imprisoned, and shall also be forever disfranchised and disquali-
fied from holding any office of trust or profit in this State; and any person
so bribing or attempting to bribe or so demanding or receiving a bribe
shall be a competent witness, and compellable to testify against any person
or persons who may have committed any of the aforesaid offenses; pro-
vided, that any person so compelled to testify in any such case shall be
exempt from trial and punishment for the crime of which such person so
testifying may have been a participant.

Statutory offense sufficiently charged if indictment is in language of statute.
Bosco v. State, 157 Md. 408.

¹ See art. 88B as to State Police.