ART. 75.] PROCESS— JURISDICTION. 1155

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 75, sec. 91. 1793, ch. 67, sec. 31.

136. If any person shall commit any crime or offence in any
county of which he is not an inhabitant, or if any person shall
commit any crime or offence in the county of which he is an
inhabitant arid shall remove after the commission thereof and
shall be presented or indicted in the county where the crime or
offence shall have been committed, the court before which such
presentment or indictment shall be found, may issue process
against such person, directed to the sheriff of the county where
such person may reside, and the sheriff shall serve and return
such process as if issued by a court of his county, and upon
neglect or delay, may be fined by the court issuing the same.

Ibid. sec. 92. 1815, ch. 149, sec. 4

137. Where a testator devises lands and dies in debt, any of
his creditors may sue his devisees without making his heirs at
law parties, unless such heirs are known to the plaintiff and reside
in this State.

Ibid. sec. 93. 1854. ch. 75.

138. It shall not be necessary for any officer, in serving any
writ of scire facias, or attachment with clause of scire facias,
to serve the same in the presence of witnesses.

Ibid. sec. 94. 1812, ch. 145, sec. 1.

139. In case of writs of scire facias against heirs and terre-
tenants, where any of the heirs or terre-tenants reside in another
scanty than that in which the judgment on which such scire
facias is issued was obtained, duplicates of such writ may issue
directed to the sheriff of each county wherein any of the heirs or
terre-tenants reside, and shall be served by the sheriff and re-
turned to the court from which they issued, and the party
so summoned by means of such duplicates shall be proceeded
against in the same manner as if they were residents of the
county in which the judgment was obtained.

Ibid. sec. 95. 1812, ch. 145, sec. 8.

140. In all cases where a joint action is instituted against
heirs and devisees, and any of such heirs or devisees shall be