786 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

and stealing from thence any money, goods or chattels to the
value of one dollar or upwards, or as being accessory thereto,
shall restore the thing taken to the owner thereof, or shall pay
him the full value thereof, and shall be sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for not less than two nor more than ten years.
Robinson v. State, 53 Md. 151.

Concealed Weapons.

1878, art. 27, see. 30. 1886, ch 375. 1894, ch. 547. 1904, ch. 114.

33. Every person not being a conservator of the peace enti-
tled or required to carry such weapon as a part of his official
equipment, and not carrying such weapon as a reasonable pre-
caution against apprehended danger, or who is not an officer
or conservator of the peace of some other State temporarily
sojourning in this State, or a railway special agent, who shall
wear or carry any pistol, dirk-knife, bowie-knife, slung shot,
billy, sand club, metal knuckles, razor or any other dangerous
or deadly weapon of any kind whatsoever (penknives ex-
cepted), concealed upon or about his person, and every person
who shall carry or wear any such weapon openly with the in-
tent or purpose of injuring any person in any unlawful man-
ner, and not for any proper purpose of self protection, shall,
upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than one thousand
dollars, or be imprisoned not more than two years in jail or
in the House of Correction; and the court or jury before whom
any such case may be tried shall in all cases have the right to
judge of the reasonableness of the carrying of any such weapon,
and of the proper occasion therefor, upon satisfactory proof;
and in case, upon conviction of any offender, the court, in view
of the evidence, shall be of the opinion that such weapon was
carried with the deliberate purpose of inflicting grievous and
unlawful injury to the life or person of another, it shall in
that case be the duty of the court to impose the highest sen-
tence of imprisonment hereinbefore prescribed.

Conspiracy.

Ibid. sec. 31. 1884, ch. 266.

34. An agreement or combination by two or more persons
to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or
furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and work-
men, shall not be indictable as a conspiracy, if such act,
committed by one person, would not be punishable as an
offense; nothing in this section shall affect the law relating to