SOLDIER, false personation of, 246: v. ARMY. SOLICITOR, embezzlement by, 237 when incompetent to give evidence against client, 407 SOVEREIGN, incapable of committing crime, 31 offences against, 46 compassing, or imagining the death of, 49 levying war against, 50 compassing, &c., death, destruction, harm, &c., 52 compassing to depose, &c., 55 various contempts, and high misdemeanors against, 70 SPECIAL COMMISSION, 304 SPECIAL JURY, 393 SPECIAL PLEA: v. PLEA. SPRING-GUN, setting, 150 STAMPS, forging Inland Revenue, 264 STANDING MUTE: v. MUTE. STARVING, homicide by, 165 STATEMENT OF INDICTMENT, 337 as to name, 337 ownership, 337 time, 338 place, 339 facts, &c., 339 STATION, Setting fire to, 273 STATUES, destroying, &c., 285 STATUTE, crimes by, 5 when makes an act an indictable crime, 7, 336 how proved, 436 STEALING, CHILDREN, 185: LARCENY. STEWARD, LORD HIGH: v. LORD HIGH STEWARD. STOCK, false personation of owners of, 247 STOCK-continued. forging transfer of, 262 forging stock certificates for payment of interest of national debt, 264 STOLEN PROPERTY, RECEIVING: v. RECEIVING; SEARCH. restitution of: v. RESTITUTION. STORES v. PUBLIC STORES. STRANGLE, attempt to, with intent, &c., 192 STRAW, setting fire to, 274 SUBORNATION OF PERJURY, 86 SUBPOENA, 413 consequence of not obeying, 413 SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM, 413 SUFFOCATE, attempt to, with intent, &c., 192 SUICIDE, 161 advising to commit, 162 attempt to commit, 163 SUING in name of fictitious plaintiff, 97 jurisdiction, &c., of magistrates, 478 how many required, 480 cases beyond jurisdiction, 480 power of mitigating punishment, 479 effect of court's judgment, 480 right to trial by jury, 481 classification of offences dealt with summarily, 481 offences by children, 482 young persons, 483 adults, 493 common assaults and batteries, 189, 485 larcenies not indictable, 486 small wilful injuries, 487 offences relating to game, 488 proceedings, 488 the information, 488 summons, 489 warrant, 489 examination in absence of accused, 490 the hearing, 490 "open court," 491 appeal, 495 to quarter sessions, 311, 495 under the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, 496 on point of law, 498 irregular commitment, 499 removal to Queen's Bench Division by certiorari, 491 summary jurisdiction depends entirely on statute, 499 SUMMING-UP OF THE JUDGE, 400 SUMMONS, forgery of, 264 form of, 320, n. to person charged with summary offence, 489 to secure attendance of witness, 490 SUNDAY: : v. SABBATH. SUPERVISION OF POLICE, 294, 462 SUPPLICAVIT, writ of, 289 SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE Act, SURETIES: v. BAIL; RECOGNIZANCE. SURREY, commission, &c., for, 302) SUSPICION, arrest by constable on, 322 by private person, 324 'SWEARING THE PEACE," 291 SWEARING, profane, 74 larceny by, 219 demolishing buildings, 279 TENANT IN COMMON, larceny by, 214 THEFT, proposed definition of, 198, 259: v. LARCENY. THEFT BOTE, 99 THREATENING LETTER, sending, to burn, kill, &c., 110 to murder, 110 with intent to extort money, &c., 110 accusing of crime, in order to extort, III THREATS, in order to extort money, 110 in order to procure execution of deed, &c., 11I stealing in dwelling-house with, 257 TICKET OF LEAVE: v. LICENCE. TIME, when of essence of crime, 338 limited for prosecution in certain cases, 345 TITLE-DEEDS, at common law not subjects of larceny, 202 making coining, 69 conveying out of Mint, 69 search for, and seizure of, 69 TORTS CONTRASTED WITH CRIMES, 2 TRADE, offences against public, 120 unlawful interference with, by combinations, &c., 126 trade union, 127 acts criminally punishable, 127 proceedings by indictment or summary conviction at option assault to obstruct sale of grain, &c., 129 TRADES, offensive or dangerous are nuisances, 141 counterfeiting and falsely applying, 125, 265 TRADE UNION, not to render liable to prosecution for conspiracy, TRAINING, illegal: v. DRILLING. TRANSFER OF LAND ACT, 1875, offences against, 265, 271 TREASON, why termed "high," 46, n. history of the law of, 47 the statute 25 Edw. 3, 47 gist of the offence altered, 48 compassing, &c., death of Sovereign, &c., 49 violating King's wife, &c., 49 levying war, 50 adhering to Sovereign's enemies, 50 slaying the Chancellor, &c., 51 counterfeiting the Great Seal and coinage offences no longer treason, 51 additions to the list of acts which are, 51 time limited for prosecution, 52, 346 prisoner may have copy of indictment and list of witnesses, 52 the overt act, 53 prisoner's defence, 53 punishment, 53 evidence of other acts may be given, 427 TREASON, MISPRISION OF: v. MISPRISION. TREASON-FELONY, 55 TREASURE TROVE, concealment of, 70 TREATING AT ELECTIONS, 91 |