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tificates circulating as money or other species of money,
although the particular species of coin, or notes or certificates
circulating as money, or other species of money, of which said
amount was composed, shall not be proved.

State v. Blizzard, 70 Md. 388. State v. King, 95 Md. 128.

Indictments—Arson or Burning.

1904, ch. 267, sec. 291 D.

445. In any indictment for arson or burning, where it shall
be necessary to allege that the person or persons accused did
the act with intent thereby to injure or defraud, it shall be
sufficient to allege that the person or persons accused com-
mitted the act with intent to injure or defraud, without alleging
an intent to injure or defraud any particular person; and upon
the trial of any person for the offense of arson or burning no
higher or more conclusive proof shall be required than is
required at the trial of other criminal cases.

Indictments—Selling Liquor.

1890, ch. 429, sec. 288 A. 1890, ch. 492, sec. 288 A.

446. In any indictment for the unlawful sale or disposition
of spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer, it shall not be
necessary to specify the particular variety, provided the indict-
ment sets forth an unlawful sale or disposition of intoxicating
liquor, but the defendant, on application to the State's attorney
before trial, may obtain a statement of the particular variety of
liquor expected to be proved.

Indictments—Violation of City or Town Ordinances.

1900, ch. 131, sec. 291 C.

447. In every indictment for the violation of any ordinance
of any incorporated city or town of this State, it shall not be
necessary to set forth a copy of the said ordinance, or any
particular section thereof; but every such indictment shall be
sufficient if it recites the number of the ordinance alleged to
have been violated, with the date of its passage, or if the ordi-
nance has been embraced in a codification, if it refers to the
number of the article and section of such codification contain-
ing such ordinance, and conforms to the rules of law govern-
ing the framing of indictments for violation of acts of the
general assembly of this State, and concludes "against the
form of the ordinance in such case made and provided, and
against the peace, government and dignity of the State."