ART. 27.] MAIMING—MANSLAUGHTER. 521

Maiming.

P G L , (1860,) art. 30, sec 120. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 4

187. Every person, his aiders and abettors, who shall be con-
victed of the crime of mayhem, or of tarring and feathering, shall
be sentenced to the penitentiary for not more than ten years nor
less than eighteen months.

Ibid, sec 121. 1809, ch 138, sec. 4.

188. Every person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who

shall be convicted of the crime of cutting ont or disabling the
tongue, putting out an eye, slitting the nose, cutting or biting off
the nose, ear or lip, or cutting or biting off or disabling any limb
or member of any person, of malice aforethought, with intention
in so doing to mark or disfigure such person, shall be sentenced to

the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than ten years.

Ibid. sec. 123. 1853, ch. 99, sec. 1.

189. If any person shall unlawfully shoot at any person, or
shall in any manner unlawfully and maliciously attempt to dis-
charge any kind of loaded arms at any person, or shall unlawfully
and maliciously stab, cut, or wound any person, or shall assault
and beat any person, with intent to maim, disfigure or disable such
person, or with intent to prevent the lawful apprehension or de-
tainer of any party for any offence for which the said party may
be legally apprehended or detained, every such offender, and

every person counselling, aiding or abetting such offender, shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished by confinement in the peni-
tentiary for a period not less than eighteen mouths and not more
than ten years.

Manslaughter.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 123. 1864, ch 39.

190. Every person convicted of the crime of manslaughter
shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not more than ten
years, or, in the discretion of the court, may be fined not more
than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in jail for not more
than two years, or be both fined and imprisoned in jail.

State v. Flanagan, 6 Md. 167. Weighorst v. State, 7 Md. 451. McDonald v.

State, 45 Md. 90.