BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

[343.] 486A.

Robbery [or larceny] of any obligation or bond, bill
obligatory or bill of exchange, bank note or notes,
promissory notes for the payment of money, check or order
drawn on any bank of this State, or any other state, paper
bill of credit, certificate granted by or under the
authority of this State, or of the United States, or any of
them, or any last will and testament or codicil, shall be
punished in the same manner as robbery [or larceny] of goods
and chattels.

372.

"Machine gun" as used in this subtitle, means a weapon,
of any description, by whatever name known, loaded or
unloaded, from which more than one shot or bullet may be
automatically discharged from a magazine, by a single
function of the firing device.

"Crime of violence" applies to and includes any of the
following crimes or an attempt to commit any of the same,
namely, murder of any degree, manslaughter, kidnapping, rape
in any degree, mayhem, assault to do great bodily harm,
robbery, burglary, housebreaking, breaking and entering and
[larceny] THEFT.

"Person" applies to and includes firm, partnership,
association or corporation.

558.

It shall be the duty of all police officers and
detectives in Baltimore City to arrest and take before a
commissioner of the District Court all persons whom they
shall find in Baltimore City or upon any train, boat, car or
other vehicle commonly used for the transportation of
passengers which may be bound to or from Baltimore City who
they shall know or have good reason to believe are common
thieves or pickpockets, and the commissioner shall commit or
bail such persons according to law or rule of court for
trial before the District Court; and if any person in
Baltimore City shall be charged on oath before any
commissioner or judge of the District Court with being a
common thief or pickpocket, the commissioner or judge shall
issue a criminal summons or warrant for the arrest of such
person and commit or bail him for trial; and any person
convicted of being a common thief or common pickpocket shall
be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisoned in
jail or in the house of correction or in the penitentiary
for a period not exceeding five years, or be both fined and
imprisoned within the limits above prescribed in the
discretion of the court; but if any person is arrested or
indicted a second time or more for such offense, he shall be
convicted only on proof that he has continued to be a common