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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0696 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY.
The. testimony of such persons, thus given, shall rot be I8 .
used in any prosecution by the commonwealth, or. other
procedure to fmover -a penalty against such porsons.
CHA TB] LXXXI.
CAUSES OF ACTION WHICH SURVIVE.
I-. No right of action for personal injury, or injury to
real or pdrsonjil estate, shall cease or die with the person
injuring or the person injured, except actions for assault
and battery, slander, criminal conversation, and so much
of the action for malicious prosecution as is intended to
recover for the personal injury; but for any injury other
than those excepted, an action may be brought or revived
by the personal representative, or against the personal
representative, heir, or devisee, in the same manner as
causes of action founded on contract.
CUAPTER LXXXIII.
q$IXE8O ,AIl UNISFIMENTh.
ARTICLE I.
General ovisiow.
Offenses are either felonies or misdemeanors.
§ 1. Such offenses as are punishable with death or con- Puo t
finement in the penitentiary, are felonies. Offenses corn- midemeacors.
mitted by slaves, and punishable alone by 'stripes, are, as
to them, misdemeanors. All other offenses, whether at
common law or made so by statute, are misdemeanors.
§ 2. No crime shall be punished with death unless it be di- Punishment
rected by statute.
§ 3. A common law offense, for which punishment is
prescribed by statute, shall be punished only in the mode so
prescribed.
§ 4. The commission of a felony shall not stay or'merge Felony 4
civi of he agrieed *merger of civil
pnycivil remedy of the party aggrieved against the felon. remedy.
§ 5. All offenses shall be tried in the courts, or by the where otrenses
tribunals of that county or city having jurisdiction ofthem, to be tried.
in which they were committed, except in cases .otherwise
provided for.
§ 6. When it is a matter of doubt, in the opinion f the When doubt-
court, in which of two or more counties the offense was f wh S offense
committed, the court of either in which te indictment is
found, shall have jurisdiction of the offensK
§ 7. If a mortal wound or other violence or injury.-. in- Where wound-
flioted, or poison be administered, in one county or corpo.- Ingo poiping
ill 066 govoty,
ration, and death ensues in another, the offetue may be an--t*M,.s
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