warrant and authority, and, if he receive no special order to the contrary, he executes the judgment therein contained. The criminal is usually executed about a fortnight or three weeks after his sentence. An execution for murder must take place within the walls of the prison in which the offender is confined at the time. If the execution be not done by the proper officer, or is not carried out in strict conformity with the sentence, as if the criminal is beheaded, instead of hanged, the official is guilty of murder. If the criminal survives he must be hanged again, inasmuch as the sentence is that he be hanged by the neck till he is dead. foreign gold, silver or copper, 41. impairing Queen's gold or silver, 40. tendering false copper, 41. trial for offender against, 41. CONFESSIONS, evidence by, 201. CONSENT as an excuse, 16. CONSPIRACY, 120, 198. to commit crime, 27. and Protection of Property Act, 116. |