$534. or coerce § 1748. [538.] If any person, either verbally or by Oct. 19, 1864, any written or printed communication, shall threaten Attempting to any injury to the person or property of another, or that extort money, of any person standing in the relation of parent or child, another by husband or wife, or sister or brother to such other, or shall in like manner threaten to accuse another of any crime, with intent thereby to extort any pecuniary advantage or property from such other, or with intent to compel such other to do any act against his will, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than six months nor more than two years, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year. Laws of 1878, punishment. § 1749. [539.] If any person shall willfully, by any Oct 21, 1878, §1. means other than words orally spoken, publish or cause p. 96. to be published of or concerning another any false and Libel; its scandalous matter, with intent to injure or defame such other person, upon conviction thereof [he] shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by a fine not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. Any allusion to any person or family, with intent to injure, defame, or maliciously annoy such family, shall be deemed to come within the provisions of this section; and it is hereby made the duty of the circuit judge of each judicial district of this state to read this section to the grand jury at each session of the court, and of the prosecuting attorney of each judicial district, to see that its provisions are enforced, whether the party injured desire to prosecute such offense or not. CHAPTER III. CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY. § 1750. Arson by burning dwelling-house in night-time. § 1751. Arson by burning other building or boat in night-time. § 1752. Arson by burning in daytime. § 1753. Maliciously burning other building, bridge, lock, etc. § 1754. § 1755. Preceding sections of this chapter to extend to married women. § 1761. Burglary in dwelling-house by attempting to get out in the nighttime. § 1781. § 1782. § 1779. § 1780. Malicious or wanton injury to animals or other personal property. goods laden thereon. Fitting out vessel with intent to be destroyed. Making or exhibiting false bill of lading with intent to injure surer. in § 1796. Using false weight or measure or marking with false weight or measure. § 1797. Opening or publishing contents of sealed letter without authority. § 1798. Fraudulently producing false heir. § 1799. Substituting another child for infant committed to care. § 1802. § 1803. Officer, agent, or member of corporation falsifying records thereof. § 1806. Trespass on United States buildings, etc., at Astoria and The Dalles. § 1807. Trespass on United States buildings, etc., at Portland. $ 540. Arson by burn house in § 1750. [540.] If any person shall willfully and mali- Oct. 19, 1864, ciously burn in the night-time any dwelling-house of another, or shall in the night-time willfully or mali- ing dwellingciously set fire to any building owned by himself or night-time. another, by the burning whereof any dwelling-house of another shall be burned in the night-time, such person shall be deemed guilty of arson, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than ten nor more than twenty years. Arson. The provisions of the code upon this topic are full and clear, and need no annotation. 536. Arson by burn ing or boat in § 1751. [541.] If any person shall willfully and mali- oct. 19, 1854, ciously burn in the night-time any church, court-house, town-house, meeting-house, asylum, college, academy, ing other buildschool-house, prison, jail, or other public building erected night-time. or used for public uses, or any steamboat, ship, or other vessel, or any banking-house, warehouse, express-office, storehouse, manufactory, mill, barn, stable, shop, or office of another, or shall willfully and maliciously set fire to any building or boat owned by himself or another, by the burning whereof any edifice, building, boat, or vessel mentioned in this section shall be burned in the nighttime, such person shall be deemed guilty of arson, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than five nor more than fifteen years. § 537. § 1752. [542.] If any person shall in the daytime oct. 19, 1864, willfully and maliciously commit any of the acts specified in sections 1750 [540] and 1751 [541], and thereby de- burning in clared to be arson, such person shall be deemed guilty of arson, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished Arson by the daytime. Oct. 19, 1864, § 537. Oct. 19, 1864, $538. Maliciously buildings. by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than three nor more than ten years. § 1753. [543.] If any person shall willfully and maliciously burn any building whatsoever of another, other burning other than those specified in sections 1750 [540] and 1751 [541], or shall willfully and maliciously burn any bridge, lock, dam, or flume of another, or erected or used for public uses, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than ten years. Oct. 19, 1864, $539. Preceding sections of this chapter to extend to married woman. Oct. 19, 1864, § 540. Malicious burning of lumber or vegetable products. Oct. 19, 1864, $541. Burning with insurer. § 1754. [544.] The preceding sections of this chapter shall each extend to and include a married woman who may commit either of the crimes therein specified, though the property burned or set on fire may belong wholly or in part to her husband. § 1755. [545.] If any person shall willfully and maliciously burn any pile or parcel of boards or other lumber, timber, or wood; or any stack of hay, grain, or other vegetable product; or any hay, grain, or other vegetable product severed from the soil, but not stacked; or any growing grass or grain, or other growing vegetable product of the soil,-such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than six months nor more than three years. § 1756. [546.] If any person shall willfully burn, or in any other manner injure or destroy any property intent to injure whatever, which is at the time insured against loss or damage by fire or other casualty, with intent to defraud or prejudice the insurer, whether the same be the property of such person or of any other, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than three nor more than seven years. Oct. 21, 1876, 1. p. 68. § 1757. If any person or persons in control or management of a steamboat or other water craft shall willNegligent con- fully or negligently so conduct or manage said steamboat duct destroy ing property and endanger as to injure or destroy the property of another, thereby endangering human life, such person, upon conviction. iug life. Laws of 1878, thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the peni- Oct. 21, 1876, §1 tentiary not less than one and not exceeding five years, p. 68. or by fine of not less than five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both. § 542. Burglary in house in 19 Or. 260. § 1758. [547.] If any person shall break and enter Oct. 19, 1864, any dwelling-house in the night-time, in which there is at the time some human being, with intent to commit a dwellingcrime therein, or having entered with such intent, shall night-time. break any such dwelling-house in the night-time, or be armed with a dangerous weapon therein, or assault any person lawfully therein, such person shall be deemed guilty of burglary, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than five nor more than fifteen years. 543. Burglary in house in § 1759. [548.] If any person shall in the daytime Oct. 19, 1864, commit any of the acts specified in section 1758 [547], and thereby declared to be burglary, such person shall dwellingbe deemed guilty of burglary, and upon conviction daytime. thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the peni- 19 Or. 260. tentiary not less than three nor more than ten years. § 544. Burglary, not house. Or. § 1760. [549.] If any person shall break and enter Oct. 19, 1864, any building within the curtilage of any dwelling-house, but not forming a part thereof, or shall break and enter in dwellingany building or part thereof, booth, tent, railway car, vessel, boat, or other structure or erection in which any 150r: 20. property is kept, with intent to steal therein, or to commit any felony therein, such person shall be deemed guilty of burglary, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less. than two nor more than five years. $545. Burglary in house by get out in § 1761. [550.] If any person, having committed or Oct. 19, 1864, attempted to commit a crime in the dwelling-house of another, shall break in the night-time any outer door, dwellingwindow-shutter, or other part of such house, to get out of attempting to the same, such person shall be deemed guilty of burglary, night-time. and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than three years. |