48 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

not incorporated under its laws, but deemed to hold and exer-
cise franchises herein, or any joint stock company or associa-
tion doing business in this State, it shall and may be lawful for
the attorney-general or prosecuting attorney for the State to
cause a summons or notice to be directed to the said corpora-
tion, joint stock company or association, in its corporate name,
to appear at the said court to answer to such indictment or
information, and such process may be served in the same man-
ner as provided for service of process in civil suits mentioned
in sections numbered 411 and 412 of Article 23 of Poe's Code
of Public General Laws of 1904, entitled "Corporations, "
sub-title "Process. "

1906, ch. 403.

652. When the sheriff or other officer shall return such
summons or notice "summoned" or "served" the said cor-
poration, joint stock company or association shall be considered
as in court and as appearing to said indictment or information;
and the court shall order the clerk to enter an appearance for
said corporation, joint stock company or association, and
indorse the plea of not guilty on said indictment or informa-
tion, and further proceedings may then be had thereon, in the
same manner as if the said corporation, joint stock company or
association had appeared and pleaded not guilty; and if the
said corporation, joint stock company or association shall be
convicted on said indictment or information, the said court
may proceed to pass judgment thereon and cause process of
execution to be issued to the sheriff of the county against the
goods and chattels, or lands and tenements of the said corpora-
tion, joint stock company or association for the amount of the
fine and costs which may be awarded against them, in the same
manner as on a judgment in a civil action; and the said sheriff
shall proceed to sell the goods and chattels or lands and tene-
ments of the said corporation, joint stock company or associa-
tion, on the said execution in the same manner as on executions
issued in a civil suit

Approved April 3, 1906.