812 ARTICLE 59.

to find specially, by its verdict, whether the accused was sane at the
time of the commission of the crime, offense or misdemeanor, and whether
he be sane at the time of the trial. The judge of the court, in which such
indictment or information is pending, shall have full power and authority
at any time, before trial, to order an examination of the mental condition
of such person by the Board of Mental Hygiene, which examination shall
be made in the same manner and under the same conditions as examinations
of convicts are now required to be made by the said Board of Mental
Hygiene when summoned to do so by the Board of Welfare, pursuant to
the provisions of Section 45 of this Article.

Where person indicted for crime alleges insanity in his defense, held that
jury must find on two separate issues of guilt and of insanity, and the verdict
is fatally defective if it does not specially find him sane or insane with reference
to both when the crime was committed and when the verdict is rendered.
(Decided prior to acts of 1931, ch. 436, and 1933 (Special Sess.), ch. 81.) Price
v. State, 159 Md. 498.

7.

This section referred to in construing sec. 6. Price v. State, 159 Md. 499.

8.

This section referred to in construing sec. 6. Price v. State, 159 Md. 499.

10.

This section referred to in construing sec. 6. Price v. State, 159 Md. 499.

Board of Mental Hygiene.

1927, ch. 393.

21A. Where a veteran of any War, military occupation or expedition,
is, or has been, adjudged mentally incompetent by a Court of competent
jurisdiction and commitment to a hospital for the insane is necessary, such
Court ia hereby authorized to communicate with the official in charge of
the U. S. Veterans' Hospital within the State of Maryland with reference
to the eligibility of such veteran to be hospitalized in such United States
Veterans' Hospital. If the Court is advised by the official in charge of
such hospital that such veteran is entitled to hospitalization and the veteran
is acceptable for same and Bureau facilities within the State of Maryland
are available, the Court may direct such veteran's, commitment to such
United States Veterans' Hospital within the State of Maryland and such
veteran upon admission shall be subject to the rules and regulations of such
hospital and the officials of such hospital shall be invested with the same
powers now exercised by Superintendents of State hospitals for insane
with reference to the retention of custody of veterans so committed, if it
is deemed advisable to assume such powers.

Provided, however, that any veteran, as prescribed above, who shall have
been duly committed to a State hospital for the insane within the State
of Maryland prior to the passage of this Act, may be transferred to the