ART. 72.] CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, ETC. 785

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

177 Overdriving, cruelly beating, starving, etc horses, oxen, etc , penalty. 178 Owners, drivers, or persona ID charge punishable 179 Justices and judges of court, society for prevention of cruelty to animals.

180 Bull, bear, or dog fighting or baiting, etc ; penalty. 161. Baltimore city, cruelty to animals, how punished

ESCAPING FROM PENITENTIARY.

132 Escape from penitentiary , punishment.

FUGITIVE CONVICTS

183 Fugitive convicts, punishment

THIEVES AND PICKPOCKETS.

184 Punishment of common thieves or pick- pockets in Baltimore city , second ar- rest or indictment, indictment and evidence

185 Thieves, etc , on railroads , punishment 186 Thieves, etc., in the counties, punish- ment.

ROGUES AND VAGABONDS.

187 Who to be deemed rogues and vagabonds, punishment.

DRUNKARDS.

188 Drunkenness, Fine.

BLASPHEMY.

189 Blasphemy , punishment

190 Profanely swearing before certain offi- cers, fines

DEFAULTERS.

191. When officers, wbose duty it is to collect revenue due the State, to be deemed defaulters,
punishment, what prima facie evidence

MILLERS MIXING FLOUR.

192 Millers tolls , penalty for taking excessive tolls 193 Mixing cornmeal or other flour with wheat flour , penalty

194 Magistrate to recognize offender, amount of recognizance, on refusal, to com- mit.

LETTERS.

195 Taking and opening letters , penalty

196. Breaking seal of letter, etc., penalty.

FUNERALS.
197 No tolls from funeral carriages, penalty against toll gatherer.

RIVERS.

198 Prohibiting deposit of ballast, etc , in Chesapeake bay and rivers, etc , pen- ally , right of appeal , proviso 199. Commander of oyster police force to en- force

200 Casting of carcass of animal in Potomac river , penalty. 201 Building of weir or hedge across river , penalty

OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON. MURDER. 1. All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, or by any kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, shall be murder in the first degrec. 50

Art 30, s 137. 1809, c 138, s 3 , 1824, c 144 Murder in the first degree 1 H & J 99, 1 H.. & McH. 83.