FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

707

CHAPTER 506.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section

seventy -seven of article five of the Code of Public General

Laws, title "Appeals and Errors," sub-title "Appeals in

Criminal Cases."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section seventy-seven of article five of the

Repealed

Code of Public General Laws, title "Appeals and Errors,"

and
re-enacted.

sub-title "Appeals in Criminal Cases," be and the same is

hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to

read as follows :

SEC. 77. The parties to criminal proceedings shall be

entitled to bills of exceptions, in the same manner as in

Parties to
criminal

civil proceedings, and appeals from judgments in criminal

proceed-
ings.

cases may be taken in the same manner as in civil cases ;

but no appeal in a criminal case shall stay execution of

sentence unless the counsel for the accused shall make oath

that the appeal is not taken for delay; and such appeal

shall be heard at the earliest convenient day after the same

shall have been transmitted to the Court of Appeals ; and

the accused upon taking such appeal shall, in all cases not

punishable by death, or imprisonment in the penitentiary,

be entitled to remain on bail, and in other cases not capital,

the court from which the appeal is taken shall have the

discretionary power to admit to bail ; provided, that nothing

herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the court

from requiring additional or greater bail, pending an appeal

than the accused may already have given before conviction.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8th, 1892.

CHAPTER 507.

AN ACT to repeal section 45 of article 9 of the Code of

Public General Laws, entitled "Claimants of Property,"

and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section 45 of article 9 of the Code of Public

Repealed
and

General Laws, entitled " Claimants of Property," be and"

re-enacted

the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as

follows :

45. Whenever an attachment or execution shall be levied

upon any personal property, goods or chattels, which may