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1935 Cumulative Supplement to the Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland
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LICENSES. 757

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 the Peace, committing Magistrate or Police Justice afore-
said, the defendant or traverser upon such appeal being entitled to have
a 'jury trial, In the event of such appeal, the judgment or sentence so
appealed from shall be stayed by the giving of security as hereinbefore
provided for, but in case such security be not given, the fine and costs
imposed shall be paid, and the same returned to the party paying the same
in event of a reversal on appeal. The Justice of the Peace or court before
whom the final conviction shall be had under any of the provisions of this
sub-title, shall endorse upon or attach to the operator's certificate of
the person so convicted the date and particulars of said conviction; and
any person destroying, erasing or concealing said endorsement of im-
prisonment or statement so attached, or failing to display the same, to-
gether with said license certificate when required so to do by the pro-
visions of this sub-title shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and,,
upon conviction thereof, be fined a sum not less than Five Dollars ($5. 00)
nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100), or imprisoned for a period
of not less than five days nor more than thirty days, or both fined and
imprisoned, for the first offense. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
shall prescribe a uniform system of dockets and accounting, to be used
and foiled1 by all Justices of the Peace, committing Magistrates or Police
Justices, in this State, in all cases arising under any of the provisions
of this sub-title. The Commissioner shall furnish, without cost, all
Justices of the Peace, committing Magistrates and Police Justices with
dockets wherein to record all such cases.

In all cases wherein any person, arrested for a violation of any of the
provisions of this sub-title, shall be acquitted by the Justice of the Peace,
committing Magistrate or Police Justice, as the case may be, the costs
thereof shall be- paid out of the proceeds of fines collected under any of
the provisions of this sub-title and in the hands of the Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles.

No provision lor appeal to Court of Appeals in cases arising from violations

of motor vehicle law; judgments of circuit courts on appeals from justices of

the peace not reviewable unless justice and circuit court without jurisdiction.

Trial before justice on Sunday nugatory, but when appealed to circuit court,

case was heard de novo. Burchett v. State. 162 Md. 26.

1927, ch. 520, sec. 4.

204A. If any part or parts of this Act, or of any section thereof,
shall be held to be unconstitutional, such unconstitutionality shall not
affect the validity of the remaining parts of this Act, or of any section
thereof. The Legislature hereby declares that it would have passed the
remaining parts of this Act, or of any section thereof, if it had known.

1 Evidently "followed" intended.


 

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