928 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

Sentence.

1888, art. 27, sec. 292 1860, art. 30, sec. 181. 1737, ch. 2. 1809, ch. 138,
sec. 11. 1825, ch. 93.

448. All claims to dispensation from punishment by benefit
of clergy are forever abolished; and every person convicted of
any felony heretofore deemed clergyable shall be sentenced to
undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for any time not less
than eighteen months nor more than five years, except in those
cases where some other specific penalty is prescribed by this
code. And every person who shall be convicted of any felony
heretofore excluded from the benefit of clergy, and not specified
in this code, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the
penitentiary for not less than five nor more than twenty years.

Ibid. sec. 293. 1860, art. 30, sec. 182 1809, ch. 138, sec. 16.

449. If any offender, on conviction, may be sentenced to
suffer death, the court before whom such offender shall be tried
and convicted shall sentence him to suffer death by hanging by
the neck.

Ibid, sec 294, 1860, art. 30, sec. 183. 1858, ch. 131

450. When a case has been removed for trial, and the party
shall be sentenced to be hung, the court shall remand him to
the place where the indictment was found, where the sentence
shall be executed as if passed in that place.

Ibid. sec. 295. 1860, art. 30, sec. 184. 1831, ch 208, sec. 2.

451. When any infant under the age of fifteen years shall
be convicted of any offense other than those mentioned in the
succeeding section the court may suspend the sentence upon
such convicted infant and bind him or her to some person
residing in or out of this State, or may procure other employ-
ment for such infant in or out of this State, and shall have
power to compel such infant to comply with the terms of its
judgment; but such infant shall not be bound to service in
the county or city where the conviction was had, nor for a
term extending beyond the age of eighteen years in females
and twenty-one in males.

Ibid. sec. 296. 1860, art. 30, sec. 185 1854, ch. 155, sec 1. 1888, ch 438

452. All infants over twelve and under the age of fifteen
years who may be convicted of mayhem, murder in the second