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CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, ETC. [ART. 72.

nizance or com-
mitment.

time or place of such assault and battery in the recognizance or
commitment on which the said person is tried, but the said person

Trial.

may be tried on a recognizance or commitment for a common as-
sault and battery, and shall be sentenced by the court according to
the facts proved at the trial.

Id s 157
1853, c 99
Presentment or
indictment

26. In case the said person is tried upon a presentment or in-
dictment, it shall only be necessary to allege in the presentment or
indictment that the offence was committed between the hours afore-
said, and that it was committed on a highway in the city of Balti-
more, or at a place of public resort or amusement, without setting
forth said highway or place of public resort or amusement by name.

OFFENCES AGAINST PROPEETY.

ARSON AND BURNING

Art 30, s 2.
1809, c 138, a 5
Punishment for
conviction of
arson
27 Md 123.

27. Every person convicted of the crime of arson, or as being
accessory thereto, shall, at the discretion of the court, suffer death,
or be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than five nor more
than twenty years.

Id s 3

1831, c 208, s 4
Burning uten-
anted dwelling-
house
Punishment.

28, If any person shall maliciously set fire to and burn any un-
tenanted dwelling-house, he shall, on conviction thereof, be confined
in the penitentiary for a term not less than two years nor more than
ten years.

Id s 4
1809, c 138, s 5
Burning ship or
vessel

29. Every person, his aiders or abettors, who shall be convicted
of the crime of wilfully and maliciously burning any ship or other
vessel of seventeen feet keel or upwards, whether laden or empty,

Punishment.

shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than two nor
more than twelve years.

Id s 5
1720, c 25,
1809,c 1,18, s 8
Burning public
building, or
attempting or
conspiring to
burn the same.
6 Md 400 ,
10 Md 431
5 H &J 125.
4 G & J. 402.

30. If any person shall wilfully burn, or attempt or conspire to
burn, any court-house, or county or public prison, or the peniten-
tiary, poor-house, magazine, or lazaretto, or public warehouse, or
any other building belonging to this State, or the different counties,
cities, or towns, or bodies corporate in this State, or the office of the
clerk or register of any court in this State, or the State House of
this State, or any public office contained therein, or any public office
in this State of any kind whatever, or church or house of worship,
college, academy, or school-house, engine-house, market-house, scale-
house, watch-house, or public barrack, such person and his aiders,
abettors, and counsellors, and each of them, shall be deemed felons,

Punishment

and, on being convicted thereof, shall suffer death, or be sentenced
to the penitentiary for not more than fifteen years.

Id s 6
1809, c 138, s 8
Burning or
destroying
arsenal or maga-
zine, or naval
stores, or at-
tempting or
conspiring to
burn the same

31, Every person convicted of the crime of wilfully and mali-
ciously burning or desiring, or attempting or conspiring to burn
or destroy, any public arsenal or magazine of provisions, or of mili-
tary or naval stores, belonging to this State, or subject to the juris-
diction of this State, or of wilfully and maliciously burning or
destroying, or attempting or conspiring to burn or destroy, any