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sentenced to the penitentiary in the same manner with adults convicted of
like crimes, and to bind out or sentence such infants accordingly.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 571. 1912, sec. 514. 1904, sec. 455. 1888, sec. 299. 1836, ch. 156, sec. 2.

674. It shall be the duty of the courts of this State in sentencing con-
victs to the penitentiary to sentence them for such a period as will expire
between the first day of April and the last day of August if they shall deem
it expedient to do so.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 572. 1912, sec. 515. 1904, sec. 456. 1888, sec. 300. 1825, ch. 93, sec. 1.

1839, ch. 37.

675. The courts of this State in sentencing convicts to the penitentiary
in compliance with the provisions of the preceding section may in their dis-
cretion sentence them to be confined in the said penitentiary for a period
not less than eighteen months in cases where the least punishment pre-
scribed for the offense is two years.

See art. 3, sec. 60, Md. Constitution.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 573...1912, sec. 516. 1904, sec. 457. 1888, sec. 301. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 10.

676. No conviction or attainder shall work corruption of bloo'd or for-
feiture of estate; the estate of such persons as shall destroy their own lives
shall descend or vest as in case of natural death; if any person be killed
by casualty there shall be no forfeiture in consequence thereof; ah ap-
prover shall never be admitted in any case whatsoever, and a sentence of
death shall not be executed in less than twenty days after judgment.

This section and art. 27 of the Declaration of Rights do not enable husband to
inherit from wife whom he murdered, since by reason of his murderous act, he, never
acquired a beneficial interest in his wife's estate. Price v. Hitaffer, 164 Md. 508.

Cited in Atlantic Coast Shipping Co. v. Golubiewski, 9 F. Supp. 315.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 574. 1912, sec. 517. 1904, sec. 458. 1888, sec. 302. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 22.

677. The real and personal estate of the person convicted and sen-
tenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary, or to be executed,
shall, after paying the retribution and reparation to the party injured, be
liable to the discharge of the expenses incurred by the State in the appre-
hension, prosecution, conviction and removal of such criminal, and in order
to ascertain the amount thereof the court before whom such offender is
convicted shall cause its clerk to certify to the warden of the penitentiary
the amount of reparation adjudged and all costs and charges incurred in
the prosecution and conviction of such offender, which the warden shall
enter in books to be by him kept for that purpose.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 575. 1912, sec. 518. 1904, sec. 459. 1888; sec. 303. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 23.

678. In all cases where restitutiqn or reparation is adjudged to be
made to the party injured and immediate restitution or reparation is not
fully made, the court before whom the offender is convicted shall, at the
instance of the party injured, issue execution against the property of such
convicted person in the name of the person injured for the value of the
property taken, or so much thereof as is not restored, such value to be
estimated by the said court; but nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to deprive the party injured from having and maintaining a civil
action against such offender, either before¹ or after conviction, or against