OF THE LAW RELATIVE TO Pleading and Evidence IN CRIMINAL CASES: WITH PRECEDENTS OF INDICTMENTS, &c. AND THE EVIDENCE NECESSARY TO SUPPORT THEM. Fourth Edition, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED, WITH THE DECISIONS AND BY JOHN JERVIS, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQ., BARRISTER AT LAW. LONDON: SWEET, CHANCERY LANE; PHENEY, FLEET STREET; AND MILLIKEN & SON, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN. OF THE LAW RELATIVE TO Pleading and Evidence IN CRIMINAL CASES: WITH PRECEDENTS OF INDICTMENTS, &c. AND THE EVIDENCE NECESSARY TO SUPPORT THEM. Fourth Edition, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED, WITH THE DECISIONS AND STATUTES TO THE PRESENT TIME, BY JOHN JERVIS, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQ., BARRISTER AT LAW. LONDON: SWEET, CHANCERY LANE; PHENEY, FLEET STREET; LAW BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS; AND MILLIKEN & SON, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION. IT has been my anxious wish, in preparing the Fourth Edition of this little work, to render it deserving of the distinguished favour with which the two first editions were received by the profession and the public. With this view I have carefully expunged the errors which pervaded the last edition, the work of an anonymous editor, and have endeavoured to arrange, under their appropriate divisions, the recent decisions, and modern enactments upon the subject of the criminal law. I have found it necessary to reframe most of the indictments in the first part of the second book, which I have done after an attentive consideration of the operative words of the respective statutes; and, to render the work of more general practical utility, I have thought it expedient to add several additional sections, which, with the other new matter, has considerably augmented |