922 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

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, offenses and
misdemeanors, of the county in which he may be arrested, or
into which he may be first brought.
Taylor v. State, 79 Md." 135.

1888, art. 27, sec. 281. 1880, ch. 485.

433. Any person who may commit any indictable offense on
a steamboat or railroad train within the State of Maryland 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 offenses, 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.

Ibid sec. 282. 1860, art. 30, sec. 91. 1793, ch. 57. 1809, ch. 144. see. 2.

1852, ch. 344.

434. Any person presented or indicted may, instead of
traversing the same before a jury, traverse the same before
the court, who shall thereupon try the law and the facts.
Davidson v. State, 77 Md. 395.

Procedure—Indictments—Amendment.

Ibid sec. 283. 1860, art 30, sec. 79 1852, ch. 176, sec 1.

435. Whenever the misnomer of any defendant or defend-
ants is pleaded in abatement to any indictment in any of the
courts of this State having criminal jurisdiction, it shall be
lawful for the State's attorney prosecuting the same, or other
person prosecuting for the State, on application to the court,
to amend the said indictment by inserting in the place of the
name or names so erroneously set forth in the said indictment
the true name or names of such party or parties, as disclosed
in the said plea of abatement, and it shall be the duty of the
clerk of the court to endorse the amendment, and to enter the
said case upon the docket of the court, according to the true
name or names of the party or parties so indicted.
Hammond v. State, 14 Md. 147.

Ibid. sec. 284 1860, art 30, sec. 80 1852, ch 176, sec 2.
438. Whenever it shall appear after a jury is sworn on any
indictment, in any of the courts of this State having criminal