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232 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. XXVII
tices in Baltimore City 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 Balti-
more City whom they shall know or have good reason to believe are
common thieves or pickpockets, and said police justices shall commit
or bail such persons for trial before the Criminal Court of Baltimore;
and if any person in Baltimore City shall be charged on oath before
any station house justice in Baltimore City or before the judge of the
Criminal Court of Baltimore with being a common thief or pick-pocket,
such justice or judge shall issue a warrant for the arrest of such person
and commit or bail him for trial; and any person convicted in the
Criminal Court of Baltimore of being a common thief or common pick-
pocket shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars or be impris-
oned 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 com-
mon thief or pick-pocket since his last conviction or acquittal, and it
shall be necessary to charge in the indictment only that the person is a
common thief or common pick-pocket, and any evidence., either of facts
or reputation, proving that such person is habitually and by practice a
thief or pick-pocket, shall be sufficient for his conviction if satisfactorily
establishing the fact to the court or jury by whom he is tried, and there
shall be no discretion in any police officer or police justice to discharge
or release any person who is by such proof before them or knowledge
n their part shown to be a thief or pick-pocket as aforesaid, but such
person shall be bailed or committed for trial; and no conviction or
charge of or for being a common thief or pick-pocket shall prevent any
such person, from being tried and convicted for any particular act of
larceny he may have committed.
See notes to this section in volume 3 of the Annotated Code.
Transportation for Immoral Purposes.
1918, ch. 83, sec. 1.
465A. It shall be unlawful for any person to transport or to offer
to transport, or to aid or assist in transporting any person or persons
upon or over any public street, road, highway, river, stream, bay, or
ether public way of any nature whatever within the State of Maryland
by means of a horse vehicle, automobile, boat, vessel, or other means of
transportation used or employed for hire, for purposes of prostitution
or any other immoral or lewd purpose. This sub-title shall only apply
to public conveyances for hire.
1918, ch. 83, secs. 2 and 3.
465B. Any person convicted of a violation of this sub-title shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00 or by imprisonment not
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