356 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

sufficient to describe such instrument by any name or designation
by which the same may be usually known or by the purport there-
of, without setting ont any copy or fac-simile of the whole or any
part thereof.

Hawthorne v. State, 56 Md. 530

Sentence.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec 181. 1737, ch. 2. 1809, ch. 188, sec. 11.

1825, ch. 93.

292. All claims to dispensation from punishment by benefit
of clergy are forever abolished; and every person convicted of
any felony heretofore deemed clergyable, shall be sentenced to
undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for any time not less
than eighteen months nor more than five years, except in those

cases where some other specific penalty is preseribed by this code.
And every person who shall be convicted of any felony hereto-
fore excluded from the benefit of clergy, and not specified in this

code, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the peniten-
tiary for not less than five nor more than twenty years.

Ibid, sec 182. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 16.

293. If any offender, on conviction, may be sentenced to
suffer death, the court before whom such offender shall be tried
and convicted, shall sentence him to suffer death by hanging by
the neck.

Ibid. sec. 183. 1858, ch. 181.

294. Where a case has been removed for trial, and the party
shall be sentenced to be hung, the court shall remand him to the
place where the indictment was found, where the sentence shall

be executed as if passed in that place.

Ibid. sec. 184. 1831 ch. 208. sec 2.

295. When any infant under the age of fifteen years shall be
Convicted of any offence other than those mentioned in the suc-

ceeding section, the court may suspend the sentence upon such
convicted infant, and bind him or her to some person residing in

or ont of this State, or may procure other employment for such
infant in or out of this State, and shall have power to compel