CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1289

An. Code, 1924, sec. 565. 1912, sec. 508. 1904, sec. 449. 1888, sec. 293.
1809, ch. 138. sec. 16.

668. If any offender, on conviction, may be sentenced to suffer death,
the court before whom such offender shall be tried and convicted shall sen-
tence him to suffer death by hanging by the neck.
See sec. 483.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 566. 1912, sec. 509. 1904, sec. 450. 1888, sec. 294. 1858, ch. 131.

669. When a case has been removed for trial, and the party shall be
sentenced to be hung, the court shall remand him to the place where the
indictment was found, where the sentence shall be executed as if passed in

that place.
See sec. 483.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 567. 1912, sec. 510. 1904, sec. 451. 1888, sec. 295. 1831, ch. 208, sec. 2.

670. When any infant under the age of fifteen years shall be convicted
of any offense other than those mentioned in the succeeding section the
court may suspend the sentence upon such convicted infant and bind him
or her to some person residing in or out of this State, or may procure other
employment for such infant in or out of this State, and shall have power to
compel such infant to comply with the terms of its judgment; but such
infant shall not be bound to service in the county or city where the convic-
tion was had, nor for a term extending beyond the age of eighteen years in
females and twenty-one in males.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 568. 1912, sec. 511. 1904, sec. 452. 1888, sec. 296. 1854, ch. 155, sec. 1.

1888, ch. 438.

671. All infants over twelve and under the age of fifteen years who
may be convicted of mayhem, murder in the second degree, manslaughter,
assault with intent to commit murder or mayhem, or of setting fire to any
building, tenement, or property, the setting fire to which is punishable by
confinement in the penitentiary in the case of adults, shall be sentenced to
the penitentiary for the said crime in the same manner as if they were of
full age, or in the discretion of the court may be confined in the house of
refuge or Saint Mary's industrial school, or the Cheltenham School for
Boys.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 569. 1912, sec. 512. 1904, sec. 453. 1888, sec. 297. 1854, ch. 155, sec. 3.

672. Any court in this State having criminal jurisdiction may bind
out to the managers of any house of refuge or other institution under police
regulations within the limits of the State all infants over twelve and under
the age of fifteen years, until they shall arrive at an age of not less than
eighteen nor more than twenty-one years, who shall be convicted of any
offense punishable in adults by confinement in the penitentiary, other than
those specified in the preceding section.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 570. 1912, sec. 513. 1904, sec. 454. 1888, sec. 298. 1854, ch. 155, sec. 2.

673. It shall be the duty of every court having criminal jurisdiction
to examine into the character of all infants convicted of offenses for which
they may be bound as apprentices under the preceding section, and to ex-
ercise a sound discretion in determining whether the said infant so con-
victed should be bound out in accordance with existing laws, or should be