546 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 196

SEC. 2. And be. it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1949.

Approved April 22, 1949.

CHAPTER 196
(Senate Bill 28)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 13
of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1947
Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title
"Assault with Intent to Murder, Ravish or Rob", providing
for an increase in the maximum penalty for assault with
intent to murder.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 13 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1947 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punish-
ments", sub-title "Assault with Intent to Murder, Ravish or
Rob", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

13. Every person convicted of the crime of an assault with
intent to have carnal knowledge of a female child under the
age of 14 years, or with intent to rob shall be guilty of a
felony and shall be sentenced to confinement in the Mary-
land Penitentiary for not less than two years or more than
ten years; every person convicted of the crime of an assault
with intent to murder shall be guilty of a felony and shall
be sentenced to confinement in the Maryland Penitentiary
for not less than two years nor more than fifteen years;
and every person convicted of the crime of an assault
with intent to commit a rape shall be guilty of a felony and
shall be punished with death, or, in the discretion of the
Court, he shall be sentenced to confinement in the Peni-
tentiary for the period of his natural life, or he shall be
sentenced to confinement in the Penitentiary for not less than
two years nor more than twenty years; provided, however,
that the jury before whom any. person indicted for the crime
of an assault with intent to commit a rape shall be tried, if
they find such person guilty thereof, may add to their verdict
the words "without capital punishment", in which case the
sentence of the court shall not exceed twenty years in the
Penitentiary, and in no case where a jury shall have ren-
dered a verdict in manner and form as hereinbefore pre-
scribed, "without capital punishment", shall the court in