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IX. Such as more affect the Interests of particular Perfons; as,

1. Ufury.

2. Maintenance.

3. Buying and Selling pretended Titles.

X. MISDEMEANORS on STATUTES, and other MISDEMEANORS.
(See Infra.)

1. Exercifing Trades, without ferving an Appren-
ticeship

2. Embezzling Naval Stores.

3. Gaming.

4. Seducing Artificers, &c. &c. &c. &c.

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OFFENCES NOT CAPITAL are, FIRST, fuch as are more immediately against

the KING; as

1. Præmunire; and

2. Contempt of his Perfon and Go

vernment, by feditious Words, &c. (See Libel. ante.);

and, SECOND, fuch as are more immediately against GoD and his holy RELIGION. (See Mifdemeanors on Statutes, and Other Mif demeanors.)

XI. INFORMATIONS FOR OFFENCES admit of the like Divifion with INDICTMENTS; as for LIBELS-Against JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, &c.-RIOTS and ASSAULTS-but here chiefly relate to the EXCISE and CUSTOMS; and are,

1. In the KING'S BENCH.

2. By the ATTORNEY GENERAL ex Officio.

3. In the CROWN OFFICE.

4. In the EXCHEQUER.

5. INFORMATIONS Qui Tam, and BEFORE JUSTICES OF THE
PEACE, (See Proceedings before Juftices of the
Peace), and before Commiffioners of ExcISE and
CUSTOMS.

I. APPEAL.

2. CERTIORARI.

3. CONVICTIONS. (See Proceedings before Juftices.)
4. JUSTICES OF PEACE (Proceedings before)..

5. HABEAS CORPUS.

6. INTERROGATORIES.

7. NOTICES, &c. &c.

8. ORDERS. (See Proceedings before Juftices of Peace. (See APPENDIX and INDEX to this VOLUME, and INDEX to PRACTICAL FORMS in the CRIMINAL DIVISION.)

PROCEEDINGS partly partaking of a CRIMINAL, and partly of a CIVIL NATURE, on the CROWNSIDE, are

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I. OFFENCES AGAINST GOD CAPITAL at COMMON
LAW.

I. HERESY.

2. SODOMY.

1. HERESY.

Indictment against a HERETIC, Ra. Ent. 263. Weft. 334-

2. SODOMY.

Indictment for fodomy in ano of a girl,
Indictment for beftiality with a cow,

For buggery,

PRECEDENTS in
Books of PRACTICE,
REPORTERS, &c.
C. C. C. 201
Ib 19.

For fodomy with a boy, Co. Ent. 351. Leg. Flu. 82. Weft. 80.

II. OFFENCES more immediately against the KING.

VOL.
1V.
Page

Ib. 200

I. HIGH TREASON (1).

1. Indictment for carrying on a treafonable correfpondence

with the enemy.

14. Indictment on the ftatute of Edward, for levying war
against the king, &c. and procuring conventions to be
held in order to alter the eftablished government.

VOL.

VI.

Page

357. Indictment for high treafon, in aiding and affifting to
communicate to the enemy how the king's fubjects
were affected towards an invafion by the French.
Indictment for levying public war against the king, by riotously
affembling armed with offenfive weapons,
Indictment of high treafon, for endeavouring to draw a fubje&t
of the king to the Romish religion,

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Indictment for treafor, voluntarily going to France without
licence from the late King William, against his allegiance,
and did traitorously return in the time of the queen without
her licence,

Indictment for high treafon, for coining fhillings,
Indictment for high treafon, for having goods for coining in
their cuftody,

PRECEDENTS in
Books of PRACTICE,
REPORTERS, &c.

C. C. A. 290

C. C. C. 685

Holt's Rep 693
C. C. C. 213

Ibid. 215

For rebellion, Ra. Ent. 643. Co. Ent. 693. 361. Plo. 385. 549. Weft. 177, 178.
Within the verge of the palace, Ka. Ent. 413.
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Rebellion

Rebellion against the late and now king of Scotland, levying war in Scotland, and
confpiring the death of the late king, and difhinheriting the prefent, Co. Ext.
361.

For promoting a rebellion, and imprifoning a privy councillor, Weft. 254. For
concerting the death and depofition of the king, and exciting others to depose him,
16. 365.

For confpiring the death of a privy councillor, Co. Ent. 173. 482.
For counterfeiting the privy fignet, Ib. 360.

For counterfeiting letters patent, and affixing the feal to the head of other letters
patent to the fame, Weft. 118. 263. 40. Ass. 33. For counterfeiting money,
Co. Ent. 360, Weft 142. 290.

For clipping and filing money, Ibid. 258. For uttering falfe money coined in
France, Weft 316. For mifprifion of treason, and receiving and concealing the
coiner of falfe money, Dyer, 269.

Against A. B. for fubverting the laws of England, 1. And. 156.

For refufing to take the oath of allegiance, Co. Ent. 434.

For compafling to depofe the king and queen from their regal ftate, and to slay them,
put them to death, and to levy rebellion and war against the king and queen,
2. Vent. 315.

III. Against the SUBJECT, at COMMON LAW.

1. Against his LIFE.

1. MURDER.

2. PETIT TREASON.

} (2).

and INQUISITIONS.

VOL.
III.
Page

116, 117. Indictment for murder by fhooting with a pistol;
plea; award of venire; verdict; judgment of con-
viction. (See Vol. III. p. 116, 117. Civil Divifion.)

VOL.

IV.

Page

45. Indictment for the murder of her own male child by
ftrangling. Several Counts.

46. Indictment for murder, making an affault on A. B. and
beating him with a stick in fuch a manner that he

died.

47. For murder on the high feas, and against the aider and

abettor.

Indictment against the warden for aiding and abetting in con-
fining the deceased in the Fleet prifon in a room newly built
and plaiftered, and the walls moift, without fire, and near the
privy, whereby he died,

Indictment for murder, ftabbing the deceafed near the navel
in his belly; fpecial verdict,

Indictment in the admiralty court for murder,

Indictment for felony, in concealing the death of a bastard
child,

Indictment for murder, by cafting a stone,

PRECEDENTS in
Books of PRACTICE,
REPORTERS, &c.

2. Ld. Raym. 1574

Ibid. 1485

Leach's Cr. L. 300

C. C. C. 180
Ibid. 438
Indictment

Against the actor and aider for murder, as well by ftriking wich a ftick as by choaking, &c.

Indictment for felony and murder, by ftabbing with a knife,
Indictment for felony and manflaughter by ftabbing, the party
flain not having ftricken the flayer firft, nor having any
weapon drawn,
Indictment for felony and murder, by ftriking, kicking, and
cafting on the ground, where the ftrokes were given in one
county, and the party died in another,

Indictment for murder, by fhooting against feveral fmugglers,
the principal in the first degree being on fhore when he shot
the party fricken, within the admiralty jurifdiction,
Indictment against M. B. for the murder of her father by mixing
arfenic with tea and water gruel, of which he drank at diffe-
rent times,

For a murder at fea, by ftriking with a bucket, tried in the
court of admiralty,

For petit treafon and murder by fhooting; against the perfon
firing, and the widow of the deceafed aiding and affifting,
For murder, by placing poifon fo as to be mistaken by the
perfon poifoned for his medicine which he was to take,
For confining and starving his wife to death,
For drowning her own child in a pond,

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For fhooting at the profecutor with a piftol, and killing him,

For murder, by beating with fifts and kicking on the ground,
where no vifible mortal wound was difcovered,
Against the actor and aiders, for the murder of a negro man at
fea, by giving him two mortal wounds with a cutlaís; tried
in the court of admiralty,

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For murder; against the actor and aider for murder, by ftriking with a poker,

Ibid. 508

Indictment for petty treafon; against a woman for poisoning her husband,

Ibid. 686

Inquifition taken before the coroner, where the deceased was wilfully poifcned,

Inquifition for murder, and alfo upon the ftatute of stabbing,

with a charge against the principal in the fecond degree, Inquifition, where the death was occafioned by chance medley, Where the deceased, being a lunatic, drowned himfelf in a river, Where a fane perfon cut his throat

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Inquifition, an inventory of the goods and chattels of M. Pin, to the inquifition annexed named, who feloniously, wilfully, and of his own malice aforethought, cut his throat, Inquifition of petit treafon, where a woman had cut her hufband's throat, ftating a languifhing in two parishes, Inquifition, where a man had murdered his wife with a poker,

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Inquifition for petit treafon, where the fervant ftrangled his mafter,

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Where death was occafioned by administering cantharides,

1bid. 97 Where

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Where death was occafioned by wilfully riding over a perfon
with a horse,

For fecretly conveying poifon to the deceased,
By cafting against the ground,

Where death happened by felf-defence,

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Where a perfon was fhot in a riot by the owner of a house, in
defence of fuch owner's perfon and property,

Where the perfon was killed in attempting to commit a street
robbery,

Indictment of an acceffary after the fact for murder,

PRECEDENTS IN
Books of PRACTICE,
REPORTERS, &c.

C. C. A. 99
Ibid. 100

Ibid. 101

Ibid. 102

Ibid. 104

Ibid. 106

1. Burn. 12.

Indictment of an acceffary before the fact, in fhooting with a pistol, 9. Co. 116.
Againft principal and acceffary for poifoning, Plow.

With weapons, Ra. Ent. 384 455. Co. Ent. 354, 355- 4. Co. 41. 5. Co. 120.
263. 9 Co. 62. 116. Weft. 70. 239. 300. 147. 155. 292. 146.

In confequence of a challenge, Co. Ent. 356.

For the murder of a ferjeant at mace in London upon an arrest, 9. Co. 62. Weft.
354.

Of an infant, Ra. Ent. 264. Weft. 152. 277. Dyer, 186.

By poifon, Co. Ent. 25. 2. Inst. 634. 4. Co. 44. Weft. 163. 165. Plo. 473.
Murder against principal and acceffaries, Ra. Ent. 263. 264. 4. Co. 40. 41. Weft.
146. 150. 301. 308. 322. 9. Co. 116.

For homicide, Weft. 138, 139. 230. Co. Ent. 53.

Per infortunium, Co. Ent. 353. Leg. Flu. 88. Se defendendo, Co. Ent. 354. Leg.
Flu. 92.

For ftarving an apprentice, Leg. Flu. 102.

For bewitching a man, of which he died, Weft. 221. Co. Ent. 109. Whilft on
horfeback, Weft. 223:

2. Against his GOODS,

LARCENY.

1. PETIT LARCENY.

2. GRAND LARCENY.} (3),

1. LARCENY, and from the PERSON.

from LODGINGS.

from HOUSES.

See FELONIES on STATUTES.

VOL.
IV.

Page

41. Record of an indictment for ftealing hay, preferred at the
quarter feffions; and the grand jury's return of "No
true bill."

43.

Record of indictment for ftealing feveral facks of wheat;
2d Count, wheat meal; plea; award of venire ;
dies datus,

42. Indictment

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