CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1241

Demurrer to certain counts of indictment should have been sustained and traverser
tried on other counts which charged a misdemeanor under this section, sec. 506 and
act of 1892, ch. 77, applicable to Baltimore County. Arraignment and plea. When tra-
verser is put in jeopardy. Basta v. State, 133 Md. 570.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 427. 1912, sec. 382. 1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

505. Any person who, by force, fraud, intimidation or threats, places
or leaves, or procures any other person or persons to place or leave his wife
in a house of prostitution or to lead a life of prostitution, shall be guilty of
a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to the penitentiary
for not less than three nor more than ten years.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 428. 1912, sec. 383. 1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

506. Any person or persons who knowingly receives any money or other
valuable thing "without lawful, actual bona fide consideration" from the
earnings of any woman or girl engaged in prostitution shall be guilty of a
felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to the penitentiary
for not less than three nor more than ten years.

See notes to sec. 504.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 429. 1912, sec. 384. 1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

507. Any person or persons who attempts to detain any girl or woman
in a disorderly house or house of prostitution because of any debt or debts
she has contracted or is said to have contracted while living in said house,
shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be sentenced to
the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than twelve years.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 430. 1912, sec. 385. 1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

508. Any person who shall knowingly transport or cause to be trans-
ported or aid or assist in obtaining transportation for, by any means of con-
veyance, through or across this State, any woman or girl for the purpose
of prostitution, or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice or compel
such woman or girl to become a prostitute, shall be deemed guilty of a
felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to the penitentiary
for not less than three nor more than ten years; any person who may com-
mit the crime in this section mentioned may be prosecuted, indicted, tried
and convicted in any county or city in or through which he shall so trans-
port or attempt to transport any woman or girl aforesaid.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 431. 1912, sec. 386. 1910, ch. 25 (p. 92).

509. Nothing contained in this sub-title shall abrogate or effect any
existing law defining or prohibiting the crime of abduction or rape, as
contained in Sections 1 and 2, Sections 544, 545 and 546 of this Article.

Passengers—White and Colored—Transportation by Railroad
Companies—By Steamboat Companies.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 432. 1912, sec. 387. 1904, sec. 346. 1904, ch. 109, sec. 1.

510. All railroad companies and corporations, and all persons running
or operating cars or coaches by steam on any railroad line or track in the
State of Maryland, for the transportation of passengers, are hereby required
to provide separate cars or coaches for the travel and transportation of
the white and colored passengers on their respective lines of railroad; and