Synopsis of the Law

RELATING TO

INDICTABLE OFFENCES:

IN WHICH

THE CRIMES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER; THE RESPECTIVE
PUNISHMENTS; THE NECESSARY EVIDENCE;
TOGETHER WITH OBSERVATIONS;

EMBRACING A CONDENSED

DIGEST OF CASES,

ARE TABULARLY ARRANGED;

AND COMPRISING ALSO, REFERENCES TO PRECEDENTS OF INDICTMENTS
FOR EACH OFFENCE, AND TO THE TEXT WRITERS ON CRIMINAL
PLEADING AND EVIDENCE.

BY B. BOOTHBY, Esq.

NOW PUISNE JUDGE OF HER MAJESTY'S COURTS AT ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

The Second Edition,

INCLUDING THE RECENT ALTERATIONS IN THE PRACTICE IN
CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS AND PUNISHMENTS.

BY LEOFRIC TEMPLE, Esq.

OF LINCOLN'S-INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

LONDON:

WM. MAXWELL, 32, BELL-YARD, LINCOLN'S - INN.

[DEDICATION TO THE FIRST EDITION.]

ΤΟ

SIR THOMAS WILDE, M. P.

ONE OF

HER MAJESTY'S SERJEANTS-AT-LAW,

AND LATE

HER MAJESTY'S ATTORNEY-GENERAL,

THIS WORK

IS INSCRIBED,

IN HIGH ADMIRATION OF HIS

Distinguished Talents, and Constitutional and Legal Learning:

IN WARM ESTEEM OF HIS

PRIVATE VIRTUES:

AND

IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE

MANY ADVANTAGES OBTAINED THROUGH HIS KINDNESS DURING THE PERIOD OF PROBATION AS A STUDENT,

BY

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

THE following pages are presented to the Profession with a full consciousness of there being already several most able and valuable works relating to the Criminal Law, which have most deservedly obtained their confidence and approbation; and that this fact calls for some explanation, why any further work should be submitted to their attention. The peculiar arrangement of this work is alone relied upon, to supply such explanation, as affording, it is hoped, greater facilities for reference to the various offences, and the points of Law arising under each, than have been supplied by any previous volume; the combination of the alphabetical and tabular arrangements, serving to direct the eye at once to the subject of which it is in search. The limited object of this compilation also tends to distinguish it from other works; as not including any treatise on pleading, evidence, and practice generally, but only such matter in connexion with these subjects as the decided cases, and the doctrines of text writers, noticed under each offence, may embrace, and as it may be useful to remind the practitioner of, in the course of actual business ; directing at the same time to the sources of more elaborate information.

The column headed 66 OBSERVATIONS " includes a condensed digest of the decided cases: under many of the more important offences, these were found too numerous to notice in the text, without inconveniently interfering with the tabular arrangements; in such instances, therefore, they are collected in a note, under classified heads, to each of which reference is made, from the text. The cases are brought down to the present time; and through the kindness of the learned editors, the Addenda to the work includes several cases contained in a number of Messrs. Carrington and Marshman's Reports, on the eve of publication. The earlier sheets of the work had passed through the press, at the time when alterations regarding criminal punishments were