344 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 190

other shift or device to evade any provision of this Act, shall
be held to be an unlawful selling.

301N. In all prosecutions under this Act, by charge, in-
dictment or otherwise, it shall not be necessary to state the
kind of liquor sold, handled or involved, nor to describe the
place where sold, handled or involved, nor to show the knowl-
edge of the principal to convict for the acts of an agent or
servant, nor to state the name of any person to whom the
liquor is sold, but it shall be sufficient to state in that regard
that the act complained of took place in said Queen Anne's
County. The issuance of an internal revenue special tax stamp,
or receipt by the United States, to any person as a whole-
sale or retail dealer in liquors or in malt liquors at any place
within Queen Anne's County shall be prima facie evidence of
the sale of alcoholic beverages of the class authorized to be
sold under such stamp or receipt by such person at such place,
or at any place of business of such person, within such terri-
tory where such stamp or receipt is posted, and at the time
charged in any suit or prosecution under this Act; provided,
such time is within the life of such stamp or receipt.

301-O. All prosecutions for violations of this Act which
are hereby declared to be misdemeanors, may be either upon
presentment or indictment or by trial before the Police Jus-
tice of Queen Anne's County, who shall have jurisdiction,
original and concurrent, with the Circuit Court for the said
County, and the said Police Justice shall have power to issue
all process, and to do all acts which may be necessary to the
exercise of his said jurisdiction, and may try and determine
all cases whereof he may have jurisdiction, and may pronounce
judgment and sentence therein in the same manner and to the
same extent as the Circuit Court for the said county could do
in such cases if such cases were tried before said Court without
the intervention of a jury; provided, however, that if any per-
son, when brought before the Police Justice shall, before trial
for the alleged offense pray a jury trial, or if the State's At-
torney for said county shall, before trial of such alleged of-
fense, pray a trial by jury on the part of the State, it shall
be the duty of the Police Justice to commit such alleged of-
fender for trial, or to hold him to bail to appear for trial in
the Circuit Court of the said county if it be in session, or at
its next session if it be not in session, and to return said com-
mitment or recognizance with the names and residences of
witnesses for the prosecution endorsed thereon, forthwith,
to the Clerk of said Court, and the Police Justice shall, in
every such case, inform the person charged of his right to a
jury trial. If after trial before the Police Justice, either party
shall feel aggrieved by the judgment of such Police Justice,