ART. 27.] JURISDICTION. 551

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 89. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 18.

279. If a person be feloniously stricken or poisoned on the
waters of the Chesapeake bay, and not within the body of any
county, and within one year thereafter die of the same stroke
or poison within any county of this State; or if any person be
feloniously stricken or poisoned in any county of this State, and
within one year thereafter die of the same stroke or poison on the
waters of the Chesapeake bay, and not within the body of any
county, the offender, his aiders, abettors and comforters, or any
person accessory thereto, shall be tried in the court within whose
jurisdiction such county lies where the death happened, or the
stroke or poison was given.

Ibid. sec. 90. 1807, ch. 165, sec. 1. 1809, ch. 188, sec 19.

280. Any person who shall commit any crime, offence or mis-
demeanor upon the waters of the Chesapeake bay, within the
limits of this State, and without the body of any county thereof,
and all aiders, abettors, comforters and accessories thereof and
thereto, may be indicted and tried in any court of this State
having jurisdiction of similar crimes, offences and misdemeanors,
of the county in which he may be arrested, or into which he may
be first brought.

1880, ch. 485.

281. Any person who may commit any indictable offence on a
steamboat or railroad train within the State of Mary land, may be
presented, indicted, tried and convicted in any county or city
from, to or through which the said boat or train may run, and on
arrest be taken before, and in case of bailable offences, be held
to bail by any justice of the peace in any such county or city; but
such presentment, indictment and trial shall be in the same county
and city in which such justice of the peace shall be.

P. G L, (1860,) art. 30, sec. 91 1793, ch 57. 1809, ch. 144, sec. 2.
1852, ch. 844.

282. Any person presented or indicted may, instead of traver-
sing the same before a jury, traverse the same before the court,
who shall thereupon try the law and the facts.