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General provisions concerning crimes and punishments. 1847 121 (1847)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0628 and id is 1 raw text is: General Provisions for Cri~mes and Punishmcnts. 121 42. Any inspector of tobacco who shall deliver or issue, or cause inspectors of to- to be delivered or issued, his receipt or note for any hogshead or odellvering cask of tobacco, or quantity of transfer tobacco, not actually re- ceived into the warehouse whereof he is inspector, at the time of de- livering or issuing such receipts, or deliver or issue, or cause to be delivered or issued, more than one receipt for the same hogshead or cask of tobacco, or quantity of transfer tobacco by him received, except where authorized by law so to do, or reissue or pass away any tobacco receipt or note, after the delivery of the tobacco for which such note was given, shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years. CHAP. XI. GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING CRIMES AND PUNISIIMENTS. SEC'rIO2f j. Felonies and misdemeanors de- fined. 2. Aiders and accessories before the fact, how lunished. 3. Accessories before the fact, when and how to be tried, &c. 4. Where tried, &c. 5. Accessories after the fact, how punished, &c. 6. Offences committed out of the state, where tried, &c. 7. Offences committed on the boun. dary line of two counties. 8. Death ensuing from injury in ano- ther county. 9. Persons indicted, how convicted. 10. Former acquittal, when a bar to a subsequent prosecution. 11. When no bar. 12. Attempts to commit crimes. 13. Case of convicts who have before been sentenced to penitentiary. 14. Case of convicts who have been twice sentenced. 15. Persons twice convicted of petit larceny. 16. When imprisonment on second conviction to conmer. -. 17. Insane persons not punishable, &c. • SECTION 18. The term of imprisonment when ascertained by a jury. It). When by the court. 20. Person indicted for felonious homi- cide may be convicted of invo- luntary manslaughter. 21. Person indicted for felony may be convicted of attempt to commit felony. 22. Benefit of clergy and petit treason abolished. 23. Corruption of blood, &c. abolished. 24. Approvers not admitted. 25. Goods of persons accused, &c. not to be seized, &c. 26. When sentence of death to be ex- ecuted. 27. Indians how proceeded against, 28. Recognizances to whom payable. 29. Felony not to merge civil remedy. 30. Common law offe'nces punishable by statute, &c. 31. Witness when incompetent for in- faimmy. 32. Witness when incompetent to tes- tify to unlawful gaming. 33. Witness not incompetent from in- terest. 34. The punislhment of death restrict. ed. 1. Offences committed by free persons shall be either felonies or misdemeanors. Those offences shall be felonies which are punisha- velonies and ble with death or confinement in the penitentiary ; all other offences dit imjeanorz, shall be misdemeanors. 2. Any free person who shall be aiding in the commission of any Aiulrssad acce. offence which shall be a felony either at common law, or by any sta- sorlcdtio re bcl, tute now made, or which shall hereafter be made, or who shall be ac- p, otsbe. cessory thereto before the fact, by counselling, hiring or otherwise procuring such felony to be committed, shall be punished in the same manner wihich is, or which shall be prescribed for the punishment of the principal felon. 3. Any free person who shall counsel, hire, or otherwise procure Accessnlea be- any'offence to be committed, which shall be a felony, either at common fore iow wri law, or by any statute now made, or which shall hereafter be made, and punished. may be indicted and convicted as an accessory before time fact, either 16

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