ART. 22] INQUESTS. 531

1888, art. 22, sec. 3. 1860, art. 25, sec. 3. 1831, ch. 250, sec. 1.

3. No coroner shall summon or hold any jury of inquest
over the body of any deceased person where it is known that
the deceased came to his death by accident, mischance or in
any other manner, except where the said person died in jail,
or where there are such circumstances attending the death or
case as to amount to a strong probability or reasonable belief
that the deceased came to his death by felony.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1860, art. 25, sec. 4. 1846, ch. 168, sec. 1.

4. Whenever a jury shall be convened by a coroner or justice
of the peace acting as coroner, on the body of any person found
dead, or supposed to have died from violence, within this State,
whereon any marks of violence shall appear, the jurors after
being sworn, and also the coroner or justice, may require the
attendance of some physician practising within the county or
city where such jury shall meet, to inform himself, by due
examination of the deceased, of the cause of his death, and
to testify and give evidence before the said jury and coroner,
or justice, in the premises.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1860, art. 25, sec. 5. 1846, ch. 168, sec. 2.

5. If any physician summoned to testify on a coroner's
inquest shall neglect or refuse to attend or to make the exam-
ination required by the preceding section, or to give evidence as
aforesaid, he may be fined as any other witness.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1860, art. 25, sec 6. 1846, ch. 168, sec 3.

6. The said coroner or justice, in the account of expenses
rendered to the county commissioners, or mayor and city
council, for holding such inquest, shall include such sum for
the said physician as the said coroner, or justice, and jurors,
shall deem just, not less than five or more than ten dollars,
which sum shall, with the other expenses of the inquest, be
paid by the county or city.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1860, art 25, sec. 7. 1831, ch. 250, sec. 2.

71 Whenever it shall be necessary for a coroner to bury any
deceased person he shall provide a coffin and decently bury
him; and the county commissioners of the county where the
persons shall have been found, or the mayor and city council
of Baltimore, if he shall have been found in said city, shall