PERSON, offences against the-continued. MALICIOUS INJURIES-continued. amounting to felony- continued. shooting, 230 shooting at Her Majesty's vessels, 231 shooting customs officers, 231 inland revenue officers, 231 choking, &c., 232 drugging, 232 exploding, &c., 233 endangering persons on railways, 235 preventing escape from wrecks, 236 exploding buildings and ships with intent to injure person, 233 not amounting to felony, unlawful wounding, 230 poisoning with intent to injure, 233. neglecting to provide necessaries, 238 setting spring-guns, &c., 234 endangering safety of person on railway, 236 furious driving, 236 leaving ice holes, &c., unguarded, 237 MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER, definitions of, 216 intention to cause death, 216 death probable consequence of act, 216 intention to oppose officer, 217 notice of officer, 217 notice, how given, 217 Provocation, 219 what amounts to, 220, 221 when it does not extenuate, 222 to third person, 223 Suicide, 224 abetting suicide, 224 no manslaughter, 224 accessories before the fact in manslaughter, 224 presumption that killing is murder, 225 punishment of murder, 225 of manslaughter, 225 Attempts to commit murder, 226 accessories after the fact to murder, 227 Threats and conspiracies to commit murder, 227 PERSON, offences against the-continued. RAPE, definition of, 248 by husband, 249 by boy under fourteen, 249 consent, 249 punishment, 250 carnal knowledge, 248 between ten and twelve, 251 attempt to carnally know girl under twelve years, 251 PERSON, stealing from, 334 PERSONATION, at elections, 129 at civil service examinations, 435 at militia parades, 435 of owner of scrip, 395 of agent of author to register copyright, 435 to obtain deposit in savings bank, 436 of notary in Quebec, 436 PETROLEUM, altering inspection of, 419 PICTURES, damaging, 473 PIGEONS, stealing, 328. killing, 328. PILLORY, punishment of, abolished, 22 PIRACY, 101: See PUBLIC ORDER (External). PLACE, definition, 3 PLANTS, stealing, 332 POISON, administering, 226, 232, 233: See PERSON (Murder, Malicious Injuries). miscarriage by, 251 POLICE, assaults on, 243: See PERSON (Assault). resisting, 245 POLL BOOKS, stealing, 327 maliciously destroying, &c., 474 POOL SELLING, 179 POSSESSION, 278: See LARCENY. POST-LETTERS, stealing, 324 receiving, 325: See LARCENY. frauds in respect to, 350 injuries to mailable matter, 466 POST OFFICE, stealing post-letters, &c., 324: See LARCENY. mailable matter, 326 key, 326 frauds by postmaster, 351 forging money orders, etc., 418 counterfeiting keys, 418 posting immoral books, 165 POWERS OF ATTORNEY, misappropriation under, 374 PRAYER-BOOK, clergy refusing to use, 158 as to intent in sedition, 93 PRETENDED TITLES, 138 note (2) PREVIOUS CONVICTION, punishment after, 26, 27 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, application of criminal law of England to, 12 PRINCIPAL, 42: See ACCESSORY. PRISON BREACH; 143: See PUBLIC AUTHORITY (Escape). PRISONERS, unlawful discharge, 145 PRISONERS OF WAR, assisting escape of, 144 PRIVILEGE, in libel, 268 PRIVILEGE OF AMBASSADORS: See PUBLIC ORDER (External). PRIZE FIGHT, definition, 66 challenging, 66 engaging in, 67 PROCLAMATION, in case of riot, 71 falsely purporting to be printed by Queen's Printer, 407 PROMISSORY NOTES, forging, 400 PROPERTY, definition, 3, 6 nuisance to, 183 offences against, 276 See BURGLARY, 316-319 EMBEZZLEMENT, 305-311, 337 FALSE PRETENCES, 341-371 FORGERY, 384-421 FRAUDS, 372-379 LARCENY, 277-340 MALICIOUS INJURIES, 449-476 RECEIVING 380-382 ROBBERY, 313 TRADE, 480-494 PROSTITUTE, 188 Indian, 169 PROVOCATION, 219: See PERSON (Murder). judicial corruption, 117 official corruption, 117 corruption in government contracts, 118 consequences of conviction, 119 corruption by revenue officers, 120 by customs officers, 122 corrupt practices in municipal affairs, 123 of voters, 125 undue influences, 126 definition of treating, 127 punishment of bribery at elections, 127 personation at elections, 129 forging of ballot papers, 130 ESCAPE, 141 permitting voluntary, 141. negligent, 141 Rescue, 142 definition, 142 felonious, 142 PUBLIC AUTHORITY-continued. ESCAPE-continued. unlawful discharge, 145 Prison-breach, 143 escaping from penitentiary, 145 being at large after sentence, 147. MISLEADING JUSTICE, Perjury, 133 definition of, 133 subornation of, 135 punishment of, 135 false swearing, 136 false statements in affidavits, 136 making false affidavits out of province, 137 unlawfully administering oaths, 138 Maintenance 138 Conspiracy to defeat justice, 139 dissuading witnessess, 139 signing false certificate of execution of death sentence, 139 MISPRISION of treason, 148 of felony, 148 agreement not to prosecute, 149 compounding penal actions, 150 taking reward for recovering stolen property, 150. advertising such reward, 151 OFFENCES BY OFFICERS, "public officer" defined, 109 extortion and oppression by public officers, 110 frauds and breaches of trust by officers, 111 neglect of duty, 112. misconduct in execution of writs, 113 refusal to serve an office, 114 disobedience to lawful orders, 115 to statutes, 115 to orders, 116 SALE OF OFFICES, 131 definition of office, 131 making interest for offices, 132 PUBLIC BENEFIT, publication of libel for, 267 PUBLIC MEETING, coming armed within two miles of, 81 lying in wait for persons returning from, 81 |