924 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

sentment, whether after verdict, by confession or otherwise, be
stayed or reversed for the want of a proper or perfect venue,
when the court shall appear by the indictment, inquisition or
presentment, or by the statement of the venue in the margin
thereof to have jurisdiction over the offense, nor for the omis-
sion or misstatement of the title, occupation or degree of the
defendant or other person or persons named in the said indict-
ment, inquisition or presentment nor, for the want of the
averment of any matter unnecessary to be proved, nor for the
omission of the words "as appears by the record," or of the
words "with force and arms," nor for the insertion of the
words "against the form of the statute," instead of "against
the form of the statutes," or vice versa, nor for omitting to
state the time at which the offense was committed in any case
where time is not of the essence of the offense, nor for stating
the time imperfectly, nor for stating the offense to have been
committed on a day subsequent to the finding of the indict-
ment or making the presentment, or on an impossible day, or
on a day that never happened, or by reason of any mere defect
or imperfection in matters of form which shall not tend to the
prejudice of the defendant, nor for any matter or cause which
might have been a subject of demurrer to the indictment,
inquisition or presentment.

State v. Hughes, 2 H & McH. 479. State v. Dent, 3 G. & J. 11. Black v.
State, 2 Md. 379. State v. Williams, 5 Md. 84. Cochran v. State, 6 Md. 400.
Kellenbeck v State, 10 Md. 439. Wedge v. State, 12 Md 232. Cowman v.
State, 12 Md, 250. State v Reed, 12 Md. 263 Parrish v. State, 14 Md 238.
Clare v. State, 30 Md, 176 Deckard v. State, 38 Md 209. Davis v State,
39 Md. 385. Archer v State, 45 Md. 457. Maguire v. State, 47 Md. 494
Costly v. State, 48 Md. 177. Barker v State, 50 Md. 168 State v. Hodges,
55 Md 137. State v. MeNally, 55 Md. 563. Hawthorne v. State, 56 Md.
530. State v. Butler, 72 Md. 98. Avirett v. State, 76 Md. 527. State v.
Edlavitch, 77 Md. 144 Acton v State, 80 Md 551. State v. Blakene'y, 96
Md. 713.

Indictments—Conclusion of—Joinder of Counts.

1888, art. 27, sec. 287. 1860, art. 30, sec. 83. 1852, ch. 63, sec. 3.

439. All indictments for offenses forbidden by any statute
or statutes, or for offenses the punishment of which is contained
in the same clause of any statute with the prohibition of the
offense, may conclude as for offenses at common law, and where
any offense which is a misdemeanor at common law may have
been made a felony by statute the misdemeanor shall not be