E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
33
CHAPTER
33.
AN ACT to regulate the time of holding the Criminal
Court of Baltimore, and making further provision for
the attendance of Juries therein.
|
Passed March
22, 1853.
|
SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the criminal court of Baltimore
shall hold three regular sessions yearly, to commence
on the second Monday of January, second Monday of
May, and second Monday of September; and such
sessions shall continue until all the business before it
shall be finished; and the judge of that court shall
hold a court every Saturday during the year, on which
day no petit jury shall be in attendance, unless such
has been before empanneled, and the case before it not
concluded.
|
Three regular
sessions to
be held.
|
SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That the grand jury in
attendance at a regular session of the said criminal
court, shall not be finally discharged until the Saturday
preceding the commencement of the next regular session,
but having finished the business before them, they
may stand adjourned until called together by an order
to the sheriff from the judge thereof, or of the State's
attorney for the city.
|
Final discharge
of
grand jury.
|
SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That a petit jury may
be summoned at any time during the interval between
two regular sessions of said criminal court, by an order
to the sheriff from the judge thereof, or the State's
attorney of the said city.
|
Petit jury
may be summoned.
|
SEC. 4. And be it enacted,
That at such special
terms of the aforesaid court, all cases may be tried and
disposed of as at the regular terms thereof.
|
Trials at specials
terms.
|
SEC. 5. And be it enacted,
That this act shall take
effect from its passage, and that the grand jury now in
attendance on the criminal court of Baltimore shall not
be finally discharge until the Saturday preceding the
next May term.
|
In force.
|
|
 |
