482 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

instrument or weapon, the probable consequence of which may
be the death of either party, and in doing so shall kill his antago-
nist or any other person, or inflict such wound as that the person
injured shall die thereof within twelve months and a day there-
after, such offender, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, being
thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement
in the penitentiary for not less than five nor more than eighteen
years.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 44. 1816, ch. 219, sec. 6.

70. If any person shall, for the purpose of eluding the pro-
visions of the preceding section, leave the State, the person so
offending shall be deemed as guilty, and be subject to the like
penalties as if the offence had been committed within this State.

Ibid. sec. 45. 1816, ch. 219, sec. 5.

71. When any judge or justice of the peace has good cause to
suspect that any person is about to be engaged in a duel, he may
issue his warrant to bring such person before him; and if he shall
think proper to take of him a recognizance to keep the peace, he
shall insert in the condition that such person shall not, during
the time for which he is bound, directly or indirectly, be con-
cerned in a duel, either with the person suspected, or any other
person, within the time limited by the recognizance.

Embezzling Property and Writings.

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 30, sec. 46. 1715, ch. 11. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 8.

72. Every person convicted of wilfully or corruptly embez-
zling, stealing, withdrawing, impairing, razing or altering any
will, testament, codicil, patent, deed, or assignment of a patent,
writ, return, record, or parcel of the same, within this State,
whereby the estate or right of any person shall or may be de-
feated, injured or any way altered, shall be sentenced to the pen-
itentiary for not less than three or more than seven years.

Isaacs v. State, 23 Md 410.

Ibid. sec. 47. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 2, sec. 1.

73. If any person to whom a will or codicil shall be delivered
by the party making it, for safe custody, shall destroy the same