CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
	speedy and public trial by an impartial jury	and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury,
	of twelve without whose unanimous consent	without whose unanimous consent he ought
	he shall not be adjudged guilty.	not to be found guilty.
		Art. 23. That no man ought to be taken
		or imprisoned or disseized of his freehold,
		liberties or privileges, or outlawed, or
		exiled, or, in any manner, destroyed, or
		deprived of his life, liberty or property,
		but by the judgment of his peers, or by the
		Law of the Land.
		Art. XV, sec. 5. In the trial of all
		criminal cases, the Jury shall be the Judges
		of the Law, as well as of fact, except that
		the Court may pass upon the sufficiency
		of the evidence to sustain a conviction.
	Section 1.08. Removal of Criminal Gases.	Art, IV, sec. 8. The parties to any
	In a case involving a crime punishable by	cause may submit the same to the Court
	death or life imprisonment, after suggestion	for determination without the aid of a jury,
	in writing under oath by either party that	and in all suits or actions, at law issues
	the party cannot have a fair and impartial	from the Orphans' Court, or from any court
	trial in the county where the case is pending,	sitting in equity and in all cases of Present-
	the court shall order the case removed to an-	ments or indictments for offences, which
	other county for trial. Other criminal cases may be removed only as permitted by the	are or may be punishable by death, pend- ing in any of the courts of law in this
	Court of Appeals by rule or by the General	State having jurisdiction thereof upon sug-
	Assembly by law.	gestion in writing under oath of either of
		the parties to said proceedings that such
		party cannot have a fair and impartial
		trial in the court in which the same may
		be pending, the said court shall order and
		direct the record of proceedings in such suit
		or action, issue presentment, or indictment,
		to be transmitted to some other court hav-
		ing jurisdiction in such case for trial, but
		in all other cases of presentment or indict-
		ment, pending in any of the Courts of law
		in this State having jurisdiction thereof, in
		addition to the suggestion in writing of
		either of the parties to such presentment
		or indictment that such party cannot have
		a fair and impartial trial in the court in
		which the same may be pending, it shall
		be necessary for the party making such
		suggestion to make it satisfactorily appear
		to the Court that such suggestion is true,
		or that there is reasonable ground for the
		same, and thereupon the said court shall
		order and direct the record of proceedings
		in such presentment or indictment to be
		transmitted to some other Court having
		jurisdiction in such cases for trial and such
		right of removal shall exist upon suggestion
		in cases where all the Judges of said Court
		may be disqualified under the provisions
		of this Constitution to sit in any such case
		and said Court to which the record of pro-

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