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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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S.B. 323
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FOR the purpose of abrogating the distinction between an accessory before the fact
and a principal in a crime under certain circumstances; allowing an accessory
before the fact to be charged, tried and convicted, and sentenced as a principal;
providing that an accessory before the fact may be charged, tried and convicted,
and sentenced for a crime regardless of certain proceedings or dispositions
concerning a principal in the crime; allowing an accessory before the fact to be
charged, tried and convicted, and sentenced in any county where the act of
accessoryship occurred or where a principal in the crime may be charged, tried
and convicted, and sentenced; altering certain provisions concerning accessories
before the fact; defining certain terms; providing that certain notes contained in
this Act are not law; providing for the application of this Act; and generally
relating to accessories before the fact.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 586A and 587
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article 27 — Crimes and Punishments
Section 592A
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
586A.
If any person be feloniously stricken or poisoned in one county, and die of the
same stroke or poison in another county within one year thereafter, the offender shall
be tried in the court within whose jurisdiction such county lies where the stroke or
poison was given; and in like manner an accessory AFTER THE FACT to murder or
felony committed shall be tried by the court within whose jurisdiction such person
became accessory.
COMMITTEE NOTE (COMMITTEE TO REVISE ARTICLE 27): See § 592A of
this article for current provisions concerning accessories before the fact.
587.
If a person be feloniously stricken or poisoned on the waters of the Chesapeake
Bay, and not within the body of any county, and within one year thereafter die of the
same stroke or poison within any county of this State; or if any person be feloniously
stricken or poisoned in any county of this State, and within one year thereafter die of
the same stroke or poison on the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, and not within the
body of any county, the offender, his aiders, abettors and comforters, or any [person]
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