RESERVED FOR CONSIDERATION, AND DECIDED BY THE JUDGES OF ENGLAND, WITH A SELECTION OF CASES AND NOTES OF CASES RELATING TO INDICTABLE OFFENCES, ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH AND The Courts of Error. BY HENRY RICHARD DEARSLY, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, AND THOMAS BELL, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQUIRES, BARRISTERS-AT-LAW. VOL. I. FROM 3RD MAY, 1856, TO 1ST MAY, 1858, INCLUSIVE. LONDON: STEVENS & NORTON; H. SWEET, AND W. MAXWELL, LAW BOOKSELLERS & PUBLISHERS. 1858. LIBRARY OF THE LELAND STANFORD, JR., UNIVERSITY LAW DEPARTMENT. 0.55367 JUL 8 1901 LONDON: RAYNER AND HODGES, PRINTERS, 109, FETTER LANE, E.C. PREFACE. In presenting this Volume of the Crown Cases Reserved to the Profession, we have gratefully to acknowledge the kindness and courtesy of all the learned Judges with whom we have had occasion to communicate respecting any of the Cases herein, Reported. To Lord CAMPBELL we feel peculiarly indebted for the valuable assistance which we have constantly received from his Lordship, and for the kind manner in which that assistance has always been afforded. TEMPLE, June 1858. H. R. DEARSLY. THOMAS BELL. Mansell v. Regina. (See Regina v. Mansell) Bayley. (Embezzlement. Servant of several Briggs. (Bigamy. 9 Geo. 4. c. 31. s. 22. Bryan. (False Pretences. Misrepresentation of Quality. Puffing Goods, 7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 29. Burgon. (False Pretences. Obtaining Money by a Contract induced by False Representations. Castle. (Felony. County Court. Delivery Cockburn. (Evidence. Absence of Witness |