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THE NEW SYSTEM OF PROCEDURE AND PLEADING IN CRIMINAL CASES FOR INDICTABLE OFFENCES. INDICTABLE offences comprise every species of treason, all felonies at common law or by statute, all misdemeanors of a public nature at common law, and all misdemeanors created by statute for which the remedy by indictment is appointed expressly or by necessary implication. If a statute prohibit a matter of public grievance to the liberties and security of the subject, or command a matter of public convenience, such as the repairing of the common streets of a town, or the like,→ an offender against such a statute is punishable, not only by any party aggrieved, but by indictment for his contempt of the statute, unless that mode of proceeding appear manifestly to be excluded by the statute. 2 Hawk. c. 25, 8. 4. But if a statute extend only to private persons,—or if it extend to all persons in general, but chiefly concern disputes of a private nature, such as distresses by lords on their tenants, or the like, there an indictment will not lie. Id. If a statute enjoin an act to be done, without assigning any punishment for the not doing of it, there an indictment will lie for disobeying the injunctions of the statute; R. v. Davis, Sayer, 133; and this mode of proceeding by indictment will not be taken away by a subsequent statute, assigning a particular punishment for the disobedience, Doug. 441, 446. R. v. Boyal, 2 Burr. 831. R. v. Balme, Cowp. 648, unless by express negative words, or by necessary implication. So, if a statute forbid the doing of a thing, without assigning any punishment for it, the doing of it wilfully is an indictable offence, and punishable as a common law misdemeanor. R. v. Sainsbury, 4 T. R. 451. Even if a statute, creating a new offence, which was not prohibited by the common law, assign a particular punishment and mode of proceeding for it, but not in the same clause which created the offence, an indictment will lie, as b for a common law misdemeanor; per Dennison, J., 1 Burr. 545; and à fortiori is it so, where the punishment is assigned or the mode of proceeding is directed by a subsequent statute. Doug. 441, 446. But if the mode of proceeding or punishment be directed by the same section or clause creating the offence, that punishment alone must be inflicted, or that mode of proceeding adopted, which the statute directs; 2 Hawk. c. 25, s. 4; yet even in such a case, if the statute direct that the 'or otherwise," an prosecutor shall proceed in a certain way indictment will lie. Id. Or, if an offence at common law have a further or additional punishment assigned to it by statute, the prosecutor may still indict as for the common law offence; and his concluding his indictment contra formam statuti, will not prevent him from maintaining it as an indictment at common law. Id. So, if the law cast a public duty upon a person, and he refuse or neglect to perform it,-as if a man be appointed to a public office, and he refuse to undertake or perform the duties of it, he may be indicted and punished as for a common law misdemeanor. See R. v. George, Cowp. 13. So, if he refuse to obey the order of a magistrate or court of quarter sessions, he may be indicted. Having thus stated, shortly and generally, what offences are indictable, I shall now proceed to state the mode of proceeding against persons charged with or suspected of having committed And I propose to them, as regulated by the recent statutes. do so under the following heads : Part I. Proceedings for Indictable Offences. II. Indictment and Evidence in particular Cases. PART I. Proceedings for Indictable Offences. I propose to treat of this part of the work, under the following heads : Chapter 1. Persons capable of committing Indictable Offences, and the Degree in which they may be Guilty. 2. Apprehension of the Offenders. 5. The Trial, &c. |