A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors

following pages. The law upon all other indictable offences will, it is hoped, be there found in an appropriate arrangement: and a chapter or book upon the law of Evidence in criminal prosecutions, which formed a part of the original plan of the Work, has now been supplied by the kind assistance of my friend, Mr. E. Vaughan Williams, whose professional attainments abundantly assure the value of the addition.

Lincoln's Inn, May, 1826.

WM. OLDNALL RUSSELL.

PREFACE

TO THE

THIRD EDITION.

IN preparing this Edition for the Press, the system adopted by the Author has been followed as nearly as could be; and the Statutes and Cases have been introduced in a manner similar to that which the Author himself pursued in preparing the second edition.

It has been the object to render the Work as complete and accurate a collection of the Law upon the subjects, of which the Book professes to treat, as was practicable.

The new statutory provisions have been inserted at length from the statutes themselves; and the cases have been introduced in such a manner, as, it is hoped, may afford a clear view both of the facts and of the decision in each case. Particular attention has been paid to this point, in order to render the work useful on occasions where a question suddenly arises in the course of a trial, or where there may not be the means of referring to the Reports from which the cases are taken.

Some cases, collected by myself, have been inserted in the Work, and such are marked, "MSS., C. S. G."

Where any point of law has seemed to call for any remark, it has been thought better not to insert the observations upon it in

the Text, but to place them in Notes; and these Notes, for the
purpose of distinguishing them from the Author's, have the initials
C. S. G. at the end of them.

In order to render the Book more complete, separate Indexes of
Contents, Statutes, and Cases have been made for each Volume.
The Index of Contents in the second Volume being a general
Index to both Volumes.

Being desirous to introduce Lord Denman's bill for amending

the Law relative to Incompetency of Witnesses arising from Interest,

I altered the order of the Chapters in the Book of Evidence, and

placed the Law relative to Accomplices in a separate section, in the

hopes that I might by that means be enabled to introduce it in the

last section of the Book; and I have to regret that those hopes

have been disappointed.

It was hoped that this Edition would have been published at
a considerably earlier period; but that has unfortunately been
prevented by unforeseen circumstances. I feel assured, however,
that every due allowance will be made for any delay that has arisen
from those bodily and mental sufferings, which it has been my lot
to undergo, whilst the work was passing through the press.

1, Harcourt Buildings, Temple,

July 11th, 1843.

CHARLES S. GREAVES.