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of making or erecting any common nuisance in or upon any iagL:
way, bridge, or public river or bayou in this state, shall suffer fi:Z
or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court, and the
court may besides order such nuisance to be destroyed, abated or
removed.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That whoever shall be guilty
of keeping any disorderly inn, tavern, ale-house, tipling-house, ga-
ming-house or brothel, shall suffer fine or imprisonment, or both,
at the discretion of the court, and the offender may likewise be ad.
judged to lose and forfeit whatever licence he or she may have ob-
tained to keep a house of public resort or entertainment.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That whoever shall be convic*
ted as accessory before the fact to any crime or offence, shall suf-
fer the same kind and extent of punishment according to the cir-
cumstances of the case, as might lawfully be inflicted upon the prin.
cipal offender for such crime or offence.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That whoever shall be con-
victed as accessory after the fact to any crime or offence, shall suf-
fer fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That every person being ad.
judged to pay any fine, shall, in default of payment or recovery
thereof, be adjudged to be imprisoned for a period not exceeding
one year.
Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the 2d section of the
act entitled, an act against carrying concealed weapons, and going
armed in public places in an unnecessary manner be, and the same
is hereby repealed. I
Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That whenever the punish-
ment of fine and imprisonment are left by law at the discretion of
any court, the fine shall not exceed one thousand dollars, nor the
imprisonment two years.
[Approved March 19, 1818.]
AN ACT supplementary to an act for the Punishment of Crimes and Misdemeanors,
and other supplementary acts.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the senati and House of Representatives
of the state of Louisiana in general assembly convened, That so
much of the laws of this state as are quoted in the fourteenth sec-
tion of Martin's digest, under the title of crimes be and the
same is hereby repealed; and there shall hereafter be no crime
known under the name of murder in the second degree; but on
trials for murder, the jury may find the prisoner guilty of man-
slaughter, if they Ohould be of opinion that he is not guilty of mur-
der, but of manslaughter.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person shalt
hereafter commit manslaughter, and shall be thereof convicted, he,
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