1250 ARTICLE 27

1939, ch. 313.

543. Any person, except the duly authorized agent of a railroad com-
pany maintaining offices within this State, who shall buy or sell or engage
in the business of buying and selling railroad tickets or the unused por-
tions thereof, or who acts as vendor or broker of whole or partially used
railroad tickets, or who solicits personally or by sign or advertisement or
otherwise for the buying and selling of said tickets, or who aids or abets in
the buying and selling thereof within the State of Maryland shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon a conviction thereof, fined not more
than one hundred dollars ($100.) or sentenced to not more than six months
imprisonment, or both. Each act of buying or selling as aforesaid shall be
deemed a separate offense. The State's Attorney of the county or the City
of Baltimore, in which a violation of this Section may occur, shall initiate
prosecutions hereunder and shall be charged with the duty of enforcing
this Section.

Rape.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 466. 1912, sec. 420. 1904. sec. 368. 1888, sec.'232. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 4.

1935, ch. 284.

544. Every person convicted of the crime of rape or as being accessory
thereto before the fact shall, at the discretion of. the Court, suffer death,
or be sentenced to confinement in the Penitentiary for the period of his
natural life, or undergo a confinement in the Penitentiary for not less
than eighteen months nor more than twenty-one years; and penetration
shall be evidence of rape, without proof of emission.

Where there are two counts in an indictment, the first charging rape and the second
an assault with intent to rape, and the jury finds traverser guilty of the charge in first
count without passing upon second count, the verdict is sufficient, the minor offense
being merged. Stevens v. State, 66 Md. 202. Cf. State v. Sutton, 4 Gill, 494. And see
Burk v. State, 2 H. & J. 426.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 467. 1912, sec. 421. 1904, sec. 369. 1888, sec. 233. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 4.
¹ 1890, ch. 410. 1892, ch. 204.

545. If any person shall carnally know and abuse any woman child
under the age of fourteen years, or knowingly carnally know and abuse
any women who is an imbecile, non compos mentis or insane, of any age
whatever, every such carnal knowledge shall be deemed felony, and the
offender being convicted thereof shall at the discretion of the court suffer
death or imprisonment for life in the penitentiary, or for a definite period,
not less than eighteen months nor more than twenty-one years.

Prosecuting witness in an indictment for assault with intent to commit rape held
not to be an imbecile within meaning of this section; indictment did not so charge. Hill
v. State, 143 Md. 365.

Cited but not construed in Baum v. Warden of Jail, 110 Md. 581.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 468. 1912, sec. 422. 1904, sec. 370. 1898, ch. 218, sec. 233A.

546. If any person shall carnally know any female not his wife, be-
tween the ages of fourteen and sixteen years, such carnal knowledge shall
be deemed a misdemeanor and the offender being convicted thereof shall
be punished by imprisonment in the house of correction for a term not
exceeding two years, or be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dol-
lars, or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court; pro-
vided, that nothing in this section contained shall be construed to affect
or interfere with the law relating to the crime of rape as now in force in