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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1939
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CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1209

An. Code, 1924, sec. 311. 1912, sec. 278. 1904, sec. 255. 1894, ch. 246.
1896, ch. 99, sec. 150A.

381. The provisions and requirements of section 379 shall not apply to
passenger cars while the same are in use as a freight or mixed train; pro-
vided that no such mixed trains shall include more than two passenger
coaches; that is to say, where passenger cars are attached to freight cars,
and together make up a train.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 312. 1912, sec. 279. 1904, sec. 256. 1888, sec. 151. 1888, ch. 407.

382. Any person or corporation violating any of the provisions of
section 379 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars, and to the
further penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every day during
which such violation shall continue.

Importing Convicts.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 313. 1912, sec. 280. 1904, sec. 257. 1888, sec. 152. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 7.

383. Every commanding officer, captain or master of any vessel who
shall be convicted of wilfully importing in such vessel into this State from
any foreign country and not any part of the United States any felon or
convict shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than eighteen
months nor more than five years.

Incest.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 314. 1912, sec. 281. 1904, sec. 258. 1888, sec. 153. 1884, ch. 130.

384. Every person who shall knowingly have carnal knowledge of
another person, being within the degrees of consanguinity within which
marriages are prohibited by law in this State, shall be deemed guilty of
felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in
the penitentiary for a term not less than one nor more than ten years, in the
discretion of the court.

In prosecution for incest, testimony of another daughter of similar offense with her,
held inadmissible. Wentz v. State, 159 Md. 161.

Kidnapping.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 316. 1912, sec. 283. 1904, sec. 259. 1888, sec. 154. 1809, ch. 138,

sec. 4. 1867, ch. 179. 1910, ch. 46 (p. 92). 1933, ch. 589,

sec. 316. 1935, ch. 283, sec. 316.

385. Every person, his counsellors, aiders or abettors, who shall be
convicted of the crime of kidnapping and forcibly or fraudulently carry-
ing or causing to be carried out of or within this State any person with
intent to have such person carried out of or within this State, or with
the intent to have such person concealed within the State or without the
State, shall be sentenced to death or to the penitentiary for not more than
thirty years, in the discretion of the Court.

Evidence held not sufficient to warrant extradition to Canada of alleged fugitive for
kidnapping. Vaccaro v. Collier, 38 Fed. (2nd), 863.

Federal officer lawfully arresting man in Canada was guilty of kidnapping if he carried
him forcibly in U. S. Collier v. Vaccaro, 51 Fed. (2nd), 17.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 317. 1912, sec. 284. 1904, sec. 260. 1888, sec. 155. 1819, ch. 132.
1910, ch. 46 (p. 92). 1933, ch. 589, sec. 317. 1935, ch. 283, sec. 317.

386. Every person, his counsellors, aiders or abettors, who shall be
convicted of kidnapping and forcibly or fraudulently stealing, taking or


 

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