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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0849 and id is 1 raw text is: LARCENY.-TESTIMONY.
eretion of the jury, by confinement in the penitentiary for a
period of not less than live nor more than eighteen years.
2. This act shall be in foi'ee from its passage. Commoncement
Cu.P. 28.-An ACT to inend and re-eact iection 14 of chapter 192 of
the Code of 1860.
lassed Febrmury 2% 1866.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section four- Amendnent
teen of chapter one hundred and ninety-two of the Code of
eighteen hundred and sixty be amended arid re-enacted so as
to read as follows:
§ 14. If any person steal, from the person of another, Gimd larceny,
money or other thing of the value of five dollars or more, he how deined
shall be guilty of grand larceny, and be confined in the peni-
tentiary for a period not less than five nor more than ten
years. If any person commit simple larceny, not from the 'unishment im-
person of another, of goods and chattels, lie shall, if they are Pod for such
of the value of twenty dollars or more, be deemed guilty of
grand larceny, and be confined in the penitentiary not less
than three nor more than ten years; and if they be of less Petit larceny de-
fined, and punl-
value than five dollars in the Girst case, or twenty dollars in 1,3et lin-
the last, he shall be deemed guilty of petit larceny, and be i-e,
confined in jail not exceeding one year, and at the discretion
of the court, may be piuaished with stripes.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Vonnnenceent
CHAP. 24.-An ACT in relation to the Testimony of Colored Persons.
Passed February 2-8, 1866.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That colored Colored persons
persons and Indians shall, if otherwise competent, and subject ndIndianas Id
to the rules applicable to other persons, be admitted as wit- nesses in certain
nesses in the following cases: cULH
1st. Il all civil cases and proceedings, at law or in equity, In civil proceed-
in which a colored person or an Indian is a party, or may be iored pren or
directly benefitted or injured by the result. IndiUa ia piety
2d. In all criminal proceedings, in which a colored person In criminal pro-
- . ceedings, where
or an Indian is a party, or which arise out of an injury done, aeolored person
attempted or threatened to the person, property or rights of or andian Isit
r o n party
a colored person or Indian, or in which it is alleged in the
presentment, information or indictment, or in which the court
is of opinion, from the other evidence, that there is probable
cause to believe that the offence was committed by a white
person, in conjunction or co-operation with a colored person
or Indian.
3d. The testimony of colored persons shall, in all cases How testimiony
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