The Republican., 1962-10-04


before any such justice OF the peace and
before they are respectively tried, as
aforesaid, shall pray a jury trial. 1t
any person charged with the commission
of any one or more OF the several OF
fenses mentioned in 474 hereof, and
brought before any justice of the peace,
shall pray a jury trial as aforesaid, II
shall be the duty of the said justice OF
the peace to commit such person for
trial, or TO hold him in bail to appear
before 1.-THE Criminal Court of Balu-
more orI the circuit court for the
county las the case may bel; and to
return the commitment or the recog-
nizance in such case Immediately to the
clerk of said court, and if such person
or persons shall be found guilty of a
violation of any of the provisions of
474 hereof, the court or justice of the
peace imposing the punishment therein
prescribed shall also award TO the
Tightful owner or dealer possession of
all of the property involved in such
~ SEc is. Aed Be il further ENACTED.
That Article p of the Annotated Code
"Crimes and Punishments," subtitle
"Thieves and Pickpockets," Section 55S,
be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as
s55s. In Baltimore City
II shall be the duty of all police
officers and detectives in Baltimore City
20 arrest and take before Isome one of
the station house justices inI the MH-
niciPai Court of Baltimore City all per
sons 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 rea-
son to believe are common thieves or
pickpockets, and said Ipolice justicesI
MHHciPdI Court shall commit or bail
such persons for trial before the Grim
inal Court of Baltimore; and if any
person in Baltimore City shall be
charged on oath before any Istation
house justice inl Judge of the Me
nicifGl Court of Baltimore City or be-
fore the judge of the Criminal Court of
Baltimore with being a common thief
or pickpocket, such Ijustice orI judge
shall issue a warrant for the arrest of
such person and commit or bail him
tor trial. and any person convicted in
the Criminal Court of Baltimore of
beng common thief or common pick
pocket shall be fined not exceeding one
thousand dollars or be imprisoned in
jail or in the house of correction or
in the penitentiary for a period not
exceeding hve years, or be both fined
and imprisoned within the limits above
prescribed in the discretion of the court;
but II any person is arrested or indicted
second time or more for such offenSe,
he shall be convicted only on proof that
Il
or pickpocket since his last conviction or
scquittal, and it shall be necessary to
charge in the indictment only that the
person IS common thief or common
pickpocket, and any evidence, either of
facts or reputation, proving that such
person is habitually and by practice a
thief or pckpocket, shall be sufficient
for his conviction if satisfactorily estab-
fishing the fact to the court or jury by
whom he is tried, and there shall be no
dfCCTRtIOn
Justcel Municipal Court Judge to dis
charge or release any person who is by
such proof before them or knowledge on
their part shown to be a thief or pick
pocket as aforesaid, but such person
shall be baled or committed for trial;
and no conviction or charge of or for
being common thief or pickpocket
shall prevent any such person from
being tried and convicted for any par
ticular act of larcency he may have
committed.
SEC. 10. And be it further enacted,
That Article p of the Annotated Code
Of Maryland C957 Edition., title
"Crimes and Punishments," Section $50,
be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:
$3.50. On railroads.
If any person shall be arrested at anv
place on the line of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, or on the line of the
Northern Central Railroad, or on the
line of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad, or the Balti-
more and Potomac Railroad, or the
Western Maryland Railroad. or any
other railroad running out of Baltimore
City, or in any of the cars or depots,
or at any of the stations on said roads,
or on any ferry boat employed to carry
passengers over any part of said roads
and within the limits of this State,
charged with being a common thief or
pickpocket, such person may be taken
before any justice of the peace of the
county in which said place, or depot or
station may be situated; or if such
person be arrested in any car or on any
ferry boat, before any justice of the
peace of the nearest convenient county
or Iof the CityI before any judge of
the Municipal Court of Baltimore City;
and such justice or jffdge shall on proof
as provided in $50 of this article com
init or bail such person for trial before
the circuit court for the county, or the
Criminal Court of Baltimore, as the
case may be; and all police officers of
baltimore City, and all conductors of
trains and police employed by any of
said railway companies, and all con-
stables and bailiffs of any county or city
on the lines of said roads shall arrest
all such persons at any of the places
aforesaid on the same knowledge and
proof of their being common thieves or
pickpockets as provided in 55S, and the
said justice or jHdQe shall commit or
bail such persons on the same knowl-
edge proof. Any person convicted in
any county on the line of said roads
with being a common pckpocket shall
be punished by fine or Imprisonment in
the Jail of the county for the same time
and in the same amount as provided in
S.5S8; and all the provisions of 55S
shall apply to all cases under this sec
tion, except so far as altered by this
section.
-. SEC 90. lind be it further enacted,
That Article 27 of the Annotated Code
'Crimes and Punshments." Section 577,
be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:
s SIT. Wanton trespass upon private
land
Any person or persons who shall enter
upon or cross over the land premises
or private property of any person or
persons in this State after having been
duly notified by the owner or his agent
not TO do so shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
before some justice of the peace in the
county Tor ethyl where such trespass
may have been committed be fined by
SAID justice of the peace not less than
one, nor more than one hundred dollars.
and shall stand committed to the jail of
the county Tor city1 until such fine and
costs are paid; provided, however, that
the person or persons so convicted shall
''e iiNi' ~ apHtdi IoH tIc
judgment of said justice of the peace
to the circuit court for the county Tor
Criminal Court of BatimoreI where
such trespasS was committed, at any
time within ten days after such judg-
ment was rendered; and, provided, fur
ther, that nothing in this section shall
be construed to include within its pro-
visions the entry upon or crossing over
any land when such entry or crossing
IS done under bona fde claim or right
of ownership of said land, it being the
intention of this section only to pro-
h'ht any wanton trespass upon the pri-
vate land of others.
SEC. q. Ard be it further enacted,
That Article 27 of the Annotated Code
Of Maryland Cos7 Fdtion), title
Grimes and Punishments," Section $50,
be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments, to read as
follows:
$50. Offenses committed on steam
boats. trains, buses, airplanes, etc.
Any person who may commit any in
dictabe offense on steamboat, railroad
train motor bus, airplane or other
means of intcrcity or interstate public
TRANSFORMATION within the State of Mary
land may be presented, indicted tried
and convicted in any county or city
from, to or through which the said boat,
train, motor bus, arplane or other
means of intercity or interstate public