The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-05-21
CHAPTER 16A.

AN ACT 70 repeal and re enact with amend
ments an additional section 10 Article
five of the Code of Public General Laws,
title appeals, enacted by chapter three hun
bred and sixteen of the Acts of eighteen
hundred and seventy.two, entitled an Act
to add an additional section TO Article five
of the Code of Public General Laws" en-.
titled Appeals as repealed and re-enacted
by chapter one hundred and thirty two oil
the Acts passed at the January Session OIL
eighteen hundred and eighty-iour, entitled
an Act to repeal section two of chapter
three hundred and sixteen of the Acts Of
eighteen hundred and seventy two, entitled
an Act to add an additional section ia
Article five of the Code of "Public General
Laws" entitled appeals" and to re enact
the same with amendments.
SECTION 1. Be lit enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That an additional
section to Article five of the Code of "Public
General Laws" title Appeals as enacted
by chapter three hundred and sixteen, passed
at the January Session eighteen hundred and
seventy.two, entitled an Act to add an addi.
tiona section to Article five of the Code of
"Public General Laws" entitled appeals"
as repealed and re-enacted by chapter one
hundred and thirty.two of the Acts passed at
the January Session eighteen hundred and
eighty, four, entitled an Act TO repeal section
two of chapter three hundred and sixteen
of the Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy
two, entitled an Act TO add an additional sec
ton to Article five of the Code of Public
General Laws, entitled Appeals" be and the
same is hereby repealed and re.enacted with
amendments so as to read as follows:
SECTION 2. In all trials upon indictment
or presentment in any court of this State,
In mt. al Inv ,l,ah
tul for any party accused, or the States At
torney in behalf of the State to except to any
ruling or determination of the court, and to
tender to the court a bill of exceptions, which
shall be signed and sealed by the court, as is
now practiced in civil cases, and the party
rendering such bill of exceptions may appeal
from such ruling or determination to the
Court of Appeals; provided that the Counsel
for the accused shall make oath, that such
appeal is not taken for delay; and such appeal
shall be heard by the Court OF Appeals at the
earliest convenient day after the same shall
be transmitted to said court, and after such
appeal shall be entered, no judgment shall
be rendered against the accused in case he
shall be found guilty, until the Court of APP
peals shall have determined upon the excep-
tions; and the accused, if convicted, shall
not be entitled to remain on bail until the
case is remanded from the Court of Appeals
except in cases in which the punishment is
fine or confinement in Jail, or confinement in
Jail or penitentiary in the discretion of the
court.
SECTION 2. And be it enacted, That this
Act shall take effect from The date of its
passage.
Approved April 1, 1886.
We hereby certify, that the aioregoing is a
correct copy of an Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed January Ses-
sion, 1885,
E. PRETTYMAN,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
w. G. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.