24                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 12

"Venue, Procedure and Sentence", subheading "Post Conviction
Procedure"; to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
11 and 11A of Article 31B of the said Code (1965 Supplement),
title and subtitle "Defective Delinquents"; to repeal and re-enact,
with amendments, Sections 14 and 15 of Article 36 of the said
Code (1965 Replacement Volume), title "Fees of Officers", sub-
title "Clerks of Court"; to repeal and re-enact, with amendments,
Sections 162 and 165 of Article 41 of the said Code (1965 Re-
placement Volume), title "Governor—Executive and Administra-
tive Departments", subtitle "The Executive Department", sub-
heading "State Library"; to repeal and re-enact, with amend-
ments, Section 1 of Article 42 of the said Code (1965 Replacement
Volume), title "Habeas Corpus", subtitle "Jurisdiction and Pro-
cedure"; and to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 2
of Article 70 of the said Code (1965 Supplement), title "Official
Oaths"; to change various provisions of law necessary in con-
nection with the creation of a Court of Special Appeals with par-
ticular respect to appeals to and from the Court and the Court
of Appeals in criminal and post conviction procedure cases and
in defective delinquent cases, to the appointment, powers and
duties, compensation and bond of the Clerk of the Court, to the
rule making power of the judges of the Court and their oath of
office, residence, disabilities, employees, salaries, and pensions,
to fix the fees charged by the Clerk of the Court, to copies of
laws and journals of the General Assembly for the use of the
Court and to distribution of the opinions of the Court, to the
granting of writs of habeas corpus by the Judges of the Court,
to correct errors therein, and generally to provide for establish-
ment and operation of the Court of Special Appeals.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 12, 12A, 13, 14. 15A, 16, 17. 21. 22 and 23 of Article
5 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition and 1965 Sup-
plement), title "Appeals", subtitle "Appeals to the Court of Ap-
peals", subheadings respectively "Appeals in Criminal Cases", "Cer-
tiorari" and "General Provisions", be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, and that new Sections 15B and
21A be and they are hereby added to the said Article of the Code,
subheadings respectively "Appeals in Criminal Cases" and "Cer-
tiorari", new Section 15B to follow immediately after Section 15A
thereof and new Section 21A to follow immediately after Section
21 thereof, and all to read as follows:

Article 5

12. A defendant in a criminal action may appeal to the [Court
of Appeals] Court of Special Appeals from any conviction where
the sentence is other than death or from any sentence other than
death imposed by a circuit court of a county or by the Criminal
Court of Baltimore, [other than] except that an appeal from a con-
viction or sentence imposed by a circuit court of a county in the
proper exercise of its jurisdiction on appeal from any People's Court
or a trial magistrate shall not be permitted, [. A defendant in a
criminal action may appeal to the Court of Appeals from any con-
viction or sentence imposed by the Criminal Court of Baltimore
except that] and an appeal [to the Court of Appeals] from a con-
viction or sentence imposed by the Criminal Court of Baltimore in