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money, or so many dollars, or dollars and cents current money, without
specifying any particular coins, or notes, or certificates, circulating as
money, or other species of money; and such allegation, so far as regards
the description of the money, shall be sustained by proof of any amount
of coin, or notes or certificates circulating as money or other species of
money, although the particular species of coin, or notes or certificates cir-
culating as money, or other species of money, of which said amount was
composed, shall not be proved.

Bill of particulars not necessary where count charging larceny stated the day and
year, the sum of money taken and its value, the name of the owner and the felonious
taking from owner's possession. Simmons v. State, 165 Md. 160.

An indictment for larceny held sufficient in view of this section, both as to the money
alleged to have been stolen and as to allegation of ownership; surplusage. State v.
King, 95 Md. 128.

As to defaulters, see sec. 95.

As to embezzling property and writings, see sec. 137, et seq.

As to false pretenses, see sec. 150, et seq.

As to larceny, see sec. 387, et seq.

As to the penalty for robbery, see sec. 557.

Witnesses.

1937, ch. 124, sec. 560.

656. "Witness", as used in this sub-title shall include a person whose
testimony is desired in any proceeding or investigation by a Grand Jury
or in a Criminal Prosecution or Proceeding.

The word "State" shall include any Territory of the United States and
District of Columbia.

The word "Summons" shall include a sub-poena, order or other notice
requiring the appearance of a witness.

1937, ch. 124, sec. 560A.

657. (Summoning Witness in This State to Testify in Another State.)
If a judge of a court of record in any state which by its laws has made pro-
vision for commanding persons within that state to attend and testify in
this state certifies under the seal of such court that there is a criminal prose-
cution pending in such court, or that a grand jury investigation has com-
menced or is about to commence, that a person being within this state is
a material witness in such prosecution, or grand jury investigation, and
that his presence will be required for a specified number of days, upon
presentation of such certificate to any judge of a court of record in the
county or City of Baltimore in which such person is, such judge shall fix a
time and place for a hearing, and shall make an order directing the wit-
ness to appear at a time and place certain for the hearing.

If at a hearing the judge determines that the witness is material and
necessary, that it will not cause undue hardship to the witness to be com-
pelled to attend and testify in the prosecution or a grand jury investigation
in the other state, and that the laws of the state in which the prosecution is
pending, or grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to com-
mence, and of any other state through which the witness may be required
to pass by ordinary course of travel, will give to him protection from arrest
and the service of civil and criminal process, he shall issue a summons,
with a copy of the certificate attached, directing the witness to attend and
testify in the court where the prosecution is pending, or where a grand
jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence at a time and