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Goods lost, appropriated by the party finding, when larceny,
when not, 387–390.

Gorze, setting fire to, 503; indictment, 502; evidence, 503.
Grain, crops of, setting fire to, 503; indictment, 502; eri-
dence, 503. Setting fire to stacks of, 503; indictment,
503; evidence, 504.

Grand jury, called and sworn, 161; charged, 161; bills found
by them, 98; they cannot ignore a bill on the ground
that the defendant is insane, 5.

Granary, setting fire to, 485; indictment, 485; evidence, 486.
Riotously beginning to demolish, 494; indictment, 494;
evidence, 494.

Grievous bodily harm, stabbing, cutting, or wounding, with
intent to do, 262; indictment, 262; evidence, 263 ;
grievous bodily harm, what, 264. Shooting, with intent to
do, 274; indietment, 274; evidence, 275. Causing gun-
powder to explode, with intent to do, 278; indictment,
278; evidence, 279. Sending explosive substances to a
person, with intent to do, 279; indictment, 279; evi-
dence, 279. Setting spring guns, with intent to do, 294;
indictment, 294; evidence, 294. Inflicting grievous
bodily harm, 268; indictment, 268; evidence, 268..
Grounds of suspicion, on which a constable may arrest, with-
out warrant, 26.

Guardians of a union, how named as owners of property, in an
indictment, 82. Embezzlement by their clerk, 451.

Guernsey, backing warrants in, 34.

Guilty, plea of, its effect, 110.

Guilty knowledge, how proved, 121, 134; in receiving stolen
goods, 479; in uttering forgeries, 550.

Gunpowder, causing it to explode, with intent to do grievous
bodily harm, 278; indictment, 278; evidence, 279.
Destroying a house by, 496; indictment, 496; evidence,
497.

H.

Habeas corpus for witness, in what cases,

156.

Hackney coachman finding articles, and appropriating them,

when larceny, 389.

Hamlet, goods of, how laid in indictment, 82.

Handwriting, how proved, 149.

Hard labour, judgment of, in what cases, 183, 184.

Hares, taking or killing, by night, in warrens, &c., 404.

Hawk, if reclaimed, a subject of larceny, 363.

Hay, in a farm building, setting to, with intent to burn the
building, 492; indictment, 492; evidence, 492. Setting
fire to a stack of, 503; indictment, 503; evidence, 503.

Heath, growing, setting fire to, 503; indictment, 503; evi-
Setting fire to a stack of, 503; indictment,
503; evidence, 504.

dence, 503.

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High sea, offences on, jurisdiction of the admiral as to, 67
where and how tried, 68; venue, 66.

Highway, not repairing, indictment against whom, 79; venue,
74; pleas, 114. Stealing the materials, &c., procured
for repairing, in whom the property laid, 82.

Hiring a person to commit a felony, is the offence of acces-
sory before the fact, 14.

Homicide, what, and how effected, 208-211; of whom, 211.
Homicide by accident, 216. 9; to be excusable, it must
be in doing a lawful act, 216, without intent to do bodily
harm, 217, and done in a proper manner and with due
caution, 218. Homicide in furtherance of justice, 221:
in executing criminals, 221; in making an arrest, &c.,
222. 29. Homicide in defence of self, family, or pro-
perty, 223: homicide se defendendo, 223; homicide se
et sua defendendo, 225. Manslaughter, 226: on provo-
cation, 226; in case of sudden combat, 229. Murder,
236; in killing officers of justice, 236. 29, 30; in killing
gamekeepers, 245; in impressing seamen, 248.

Homicide by workmen, 219.

Homicide from ignorance, want of skill, carelessness or negli-
gence, 220.

Homicide from unavoidable necessity, 224, 225.

Hop-binds, destroying, 505; indictment, 505; evidence, 505.
Hop-oast, setting fire to, 485; indictment, 485; evidence,
486. Riotously beginning to demolish, 494; indictment,
494; evidence, 494.

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House, setting fire to, 485; indictment, 485; evidence, 486.
Riotously beginning to demolish, 494; indictment, 494;
evidence, 494.

Housebreaking, 347; indictment, 347; evidence, 347. Per-
sons found in the night armed with intent to commit, or
with implements of housebreaking, 353; indictment, 353;
evidence, 353.

Hovel, setting fire to, 491; indictment, 491; evidence, 491.
Hue and cry, 28; what, and in what cases, and how levied
and pursued, 28; killing persons pursuing it, murder,
238.

Hull, adjoining county to, for the trial of offences committed
in, 64.

Hunting deer in inclosed places, 402; indictment, 402; evi-
dence, 403. Hunting deer in uninclosed places, 408';
indictment, 403; evidence, 404.

Husband may be accessory after the fact to his wife, 18; can-

not give evidence for her, 152, nor against her, except
for a personal injury to himself, 153; he may justify
homicide in defence of her, 225.

Husbandry, implements of, in a farm building, setting fire to,
492; indictment, 492; evidence, 492.

I.

Identity of defendant, to be proved before the grand jury, 98;
before the justice who commits him upon arrest after in-
dictment, 105; upon a trial for a subsequent felony, 626.
628; in support of a plea of auterfois acquit, 123.

Idiot, who, 4; not punishable for offences, 4; if incited to
commit an offence, and he commit it, the inciter is guilty
as principal, 10.

Idiot cannot be a witness, 150.

Ignorance, homicide committed from, in what cases: man-
slaughter, 220. 9; in what not, 10.

Ignoring bill by grand jury, 98, 99.

Illegal arrest, homicide upon, manslaughter, 241, 242. 222.
Illegitimate child, how named in indictment, 79, 80, 81.
Impeding a person saving himself from wreck, 532; indict-
ment, 532; evidence, 532.

Implements of housebreaking, being found with, in the night,
353; indictment, 353; evidence, 353.

Implements of husbandry, setting fire to in a farm building,
492; indictment, 492; evidence, 492.

Implements of manufacture, for carding, spinning, &c.,
breaking or destroying, 499; indictment, 499; evidence,
499.

Impressing seamen, homicide in, 248; when murder, when
manslaughter, 248.

Imprisonment, sentence of, 182; in what cases, and for what
periods, solitary, 183; in what place, 204.

Imprisonment, false, 293; indictment, 293; evidence, 293.
Incipitur, entry of, when evidence of judgment being signed,
602.

Inciting to crime, punishment if not committed, 19; form of
the indictment, 20; punishment if committed, 14, and if
the party incited be an innocent, agent, as an idiot, inciter
guilty as principal, 10.

Inciting to mutiny, venue, 72.

Indecent assault, 313; indictment, 318; evidence, 314.

Indecent exposure of the person, bail in, 55.

Indictable offences, 1; proceedings for them, 2.

Indictment, 63 :-venue, 63;-commencement, and caption,

76;-body of the indictment, 78, defendant how described,

78, prosecutor or party injured, how described, 79, time,
83, place, 85, statement of the offence, 85. 179, intent,
87, must be positive, 87, certain, 87, and not repugnant,
91; technical words, 91 :-conclusion of the indictment,
92. Joinder of offences, 93: several counts for the same
offence, 93; second count for a different offence, 95.
Joinder of defendants, 96. Indictment how preferred
and found, 97; in what cases defendant to have a copy,
99. 565. In what cases amendable, 99, for variance as to
written instruments, 100, for variance in other respects,
100. When and how quashed, 102.

Indictment, demurrer to, 115; form of it, 116; and joinder,
116.

Indictment of corporations, in what cases, 8, 9.

Indictment, not evidence, 142; how proved, 142; how proved
⚫on an indictment for perjury, 602.~

Indorsement in backing a warrant, 34.

Inducement to confess, by threat or promise, renders the con-
fession inadmissible in evidence, 126; but any discovery
in consequence of it, is, 130.

Infant, in what cases punishable for crime, 3. 305.
Infant, how named in indictment, 79, 80, 81.
Infant, in what cases a competent witness, 150.

Infant in the womb, not the subject of homicide, 211.

Inferior courts, proceedings in, how proved, 144.

Information for an indictable offence, before a magistrate, 31.
Information for summary conviction, how proved, 142. 603.
Infortunium, homicide per, 216.

Inhabitants of a parish, &c., indictment when against, 79; in
what cases competent witnesses for or against their parish,
&c., 152.

Injury, dangerous to life, doing, 269; indictment, 269; evi-
dence, 269.

Inland navigation, venue in offences committed during a
voyage on, 65.

Innocent agent, offences procured to be committed by, the
procurer is guilty as principal, 10.

Innuendo, in indictment, when necessary, 600.

Inquisition of coroner, how defendant arraigned upon, 108.
Inquisition, how proved, 145.

Insane person, not punishable for crime, but acquitted on the
ground of insanity, 5, but to be kept in custody, 5. In-
sane person not to be arraigned, 4, or if arraigned and
he stand mute, jury to try whether he is insane, 109;
not to have judgment passed upon him, 5; but he is not
to be discharged, even when no bill is found against
him, 5.

Insane persons not competent witnesses, 150.

Insolvent court, proceedings in, how proved, 145.

Instrument, written, how to be stated in indictment, 89, 90.
357.

Instrument, using, to procure abortion, 296; indictment, 296 ;
evidence, 297.

Intent, in what cases stated in indictment, 87; how proved,
119, 120. 134.
Intent, to resist or prevent apprehension, 266;—to defraud,
471. 546; to disable, 264;-to disfigure, 264;—to ex-
tort, 323. 325 ;-to commit a felony, 285. 329. 340;-
to do grievous bodily harm, 264;-to injure the owner or
insurers of ships, &c., 485. 488;-to maim, 264;-to
murder, 258. 270;-to steal, 401, 402.

Intent, felonious, in larceny, 366; what, 366; at what time
it must be entertained, 367; how proved, 381.
Interested witness, not incompetent, 151.

Interrogatory in law or equity, stealing, obliterating, or de-
stroying, 397; indictment, 397; evidence, 397.

Invasion, inciting foreigners to, 568.

Invito domino, the taking must be, in larceny, 364.

Ireland, backing warrants in, 34.

Ireland, statutes of, how proved, 141.

Iron, fixed to buildings, &c., stealing, or ripping with intent
to steal, 411; indictment, 411; evidence, 412.

J.

Jersey, backing warrants in, 34.

Jews, marriage of, 612.

Jews may be witnesses, 150.

Joinder of counts in indictment, 93.

Joinder of defendants, 96; of several accessories, 17, 19.
Joinder in demurrer, 116.

Joinder in error, 201.

Joint-tenants, property of, how stated in indictment, 81. 359.
Joint-tenant cannot be guilty of larceny of the joint property,

368.

Joint-stock company, documents and proceedings of, how
proved, 146; property of, how stated in indictment, 81.
Journals of the houses of parliament, how proved, 144.
Journey, felony or misdemeanor during, where venue, 64.
Judge, may be a witness, 151; slaying him, treason, 567.
Judge, document signed by, how proved, 144.
Judgment, entry of, how proved, 602.

Judgment on plea of auterfois acquit, 113; on demurrer, 115;
on verdict, 177. 180. 193. 322; in what case amendable,
186; in error, 201. No judgment to be passed on person
insane, 5.

Judgment, motion in arrest of, 178.

Judgments, foreign, how proved, 144.

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