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General provisions concerning crimes and punishments. 1854-1855 636 (1855)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0137 and id is 1 raw text is: 6M6 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. CHAP. 50. last section, be incompetent to be sworn as a juror or witness in any cause, civil or criminal. Misdemean- SEC. 58. -Every person who shall shoot at a mark along or in shooting at a mar . or across a public highway, shall be adjudged guilty of a mis- Acts 15, p. 218. demeanor, and shall, on conviction, be fined the sum of five dollars. ARTICLE IX. GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING CILIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 1. Punishument for attempts to commit offences. 2. When attempts not indictable. 3. Proceedings against per'sons for felony in another State, &c. 4. What defendant may plead in his delence. 5. Punishment of principals in second degree, and accesso- ries before the fact. 6. Who deemed accessories after the fact, and how punished. 7. Punishment forsecond olfences. 8. Convicts in other States liable to punishment for second eoiiviction. 0. Sentence of persons convicted of two or more offences [it the saine time. 10. When imprisonment may ex- tend to lifetime; never to be less than two years. 11. No line can be imtposed, when pris otr is seit to the peni- tentiary. 12. Puishilment limited in certain cases. 13. Misdemeanors, where no pun- ishnient is Prescribed, how punished. 14. Defendant may be convicted of a less degree of the offeace charged. 15. Persons indicted for embezzle- lent may be convicted of larceny, and rice rersa. 16. If indicted for nisdeimeaaor, an1 I at trial prove to he fe- lony, defendant shall not be acquitted. Court may dis- charge jury, &c. 17. Where no fine is prescribed, what ine may be imposed. 18. Acquittal is a bar to a prose- cution for the same offence, and every inferior degree thereof. 19. When defendant may be tried again; when not. 20. Acquittal may be pleaded in bar, when. 21. Minor convicts, under sixteen, to be sentenced to county jail, &c. 22. Civil rights to be suspended during iniprisomnicut in the penitentiary. 23. Persons of convicts protected by the law from injury, &c. 24. Forfeiture of estates abolished. 25. Benefit of clergy abolished. 26. low disabilities may be re- moved. 27. How reqioved iii case of minor convicts. 28. Civil action declared not merg- ed ini a felony. 29. Negroes or mulattoes punished by stripes. 80. How tried, and before whom. 31, When jury shall be summnoned. 32. Fines under omie hundred dol- lars recoverable before a jus- tice of the peace. 33. Fines, forfeitures, &c., reco- verable by indictment, when. 34. Assaults and batteries not in- dictable, how to be prose- cuted. 35. Jurisdiction of circuit court and justices of the peace, ill criminal cases, defined. 36. Slaves convicted of felonies not capital, how Punished. 37. Civil remedies against owner c f a slave guilty of certain of- fences against persons or pro- perty. 38. Detinition of the term felony. 39. Definition of tie term infa- mioOs crime. 40. Definition of the term misde- niaor. 41. Definition of the terms crime, offence and crimiinal of- felce. 42. Construction of the term per- sonal property.

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