S.B. 618

VETOES

487.

In any indictment or warrant for robbery, it shall be sufficient to use a formula

substantially to the following effect: "That A-B on the ..... day of....., 19 ....., in the

County (City) aforesaid feloniously did rob C-D (OR DID ATTEMPT TO ROB C-D, AS THE
CASE MAY BE) and violently did steal (OR ATTEMPT TO STEAL, AS THE CASE MAY BE)

from him.....dollars (here list the property stolen); contrary to the form of the Act of

Assembly in such cases made and provided and against the peace, government and dignity
of the State."

488.

Every person convicted of the crime of robbery or attempt to rob with a dangerous
or deadly weapon or accessory thereto IS GUILTY OF A FELONY, shall restore to the
owner thereof the thing robbed or taken, or shall pay him the full value thereof, and be
sentenced to imprisonment [in the Maryland Penitentiary] for not more than [twenty]
20 years.

COMMITTEE NOTE (COMMITTEE TO REVISE ARTICLE 27): See
Committee Note to Article 27, § 486. The phrase "in the Maryland Penitentiary" is
stricken as obsolete since sentencing currently is to the local jail or to the Division of
Correction, depending on the length of the sentence, under the provisions of Article 27,
§ 690.

594B.

(f) The offenses referred to in subsection (e) of this section are:

(1) Those offenses specified in the following sections of Article 27, as they
may be amended from time to time:

(i) Section 8(a) (relating to malicious burning);

(II) SECTION 12A-1 (RELATING TO ASSAULT IN THE SECOND
DEGREE);

[(ii)] (III) Section 36 (relating to carrying or wearing weapon);

[(iii)] (IV) Section 111 (relating to destroying, injuring, etc., property of
another);

[(iv)](V) Section 156 (relating to giving a false alarm of a fire);

[(v)](VI) Section 287 (relating to possession of hypodermic syringes,
etc., restricted);

[(vi)] (VII) Sections 342 through 344 (theft) where the value of the
property stolen was less than $300;

[(vii) Section 33A (relating to breaking into building or boat with intent
to steal);

(viii) The common-law crime of assault when committed with intent to
do great bodily harm;]

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