1246 ARTICLE 27

Perjury is an infamous crime and ,any person convicted thereof will not only be
disfranchised (unless pardoned), but will be punished under sec. 531. Indictment held
sufficient. State v. Floto, 81 Md. 601.

The first and second sections of 23 George 2nd, ch. 11 dealing with prosecutions for
perjury and subornation of perjury, held to be in force in Maryland. Indictment for
perjury growing out of & habeas corpus proceeding, held valid. How materiality of
evidence may appear. Departure held to be one of form merely. Deckard v. State, 38
Md. 201.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 450. 1912, sec. 405. 1904, sec. 357. 1894, ch. 262, sec. 226A.

528. Any person who shall make oath or affirmation to two contradic-
tory statements, each of them in one of the cases enumerated in section
527 and in either case shall make oath or affirmation wilfully and falsely,
shall be deemed guilty of perjury; and to sustain an indictment under
this section it shall be sufficient to allege and prove that one of the said
two contradictory statements is or must be false and wilful, without speci-
fying which one.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 451. 1912, sec. 406. 1904, sec. 358. 1888, sec. 227. 1692, ch. 16, sec. 2.

1894, ch. 262.

529. Any person who shall procure another to make a false oath or
affirmation in any of the cases embraced in the two preceding sections shall
be deemed guilty of subornation of perjury.

1927, ch. 491.

530. Any person employed by the State Board of Agriculture, the
University of Maryland, or any department or branch thereof, to inspect
and/or test cows and/or the quantity and quality of milk, who shall wil-
fully make any false oath or affirmation with respect to the production
record of any cow, shall be deemed guilty of perjury. If any such person
shall make oath or affirmation to two statements, one contradicting the
other, with respect to the production record of any cow, and shall make
oath or affirmation wilfully and falsely, it shall be sufficient, in order to
convict, to allege and prove that one of the said contradictory statements is
or must be false and wilful, without specifying which one.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 452. 1912, sec. 407. 1904, sec. 359. 1888, sec. 228. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 8.

1894, ch. 262.

531. Every person who shall be convicted of perjury or subornation
of perjury shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the jail or penitentiary
for not more than ten years.

See notes to sec. 527.

Pneumatic Tire.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 453. 1912, sec. 408. 1904, sec. 360. 1896, ch. 437, secs. 1 and 2.

532. Whoever wilfully places or causes to be placed in or upon any
avenue, street, alley, road, highway or public way any tack, nail, piece of
iron, broken glass or other substance which may injure, cut or puncture
any pneumatic tire shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, to be tried before a
justice of the peace, and shall be fined not more than fifty dollars nor less
than five dollars, such fines to be collected as other fines are collected, and
when collected, to be paid into the road or street fund of the county or
municipal corporation in which they are collected. This section shall not
apply to Talbot or Wicomico Counties.