INDICTMENTT FOR PERSONATING. Preliminary notes. offence, &c. 1081 Indictments for personating for personating proprietor of stock, 1083 for personating bail before commissioner in country, 1085 INDICTMENTS FOR MALICIOUSLY KILLING, &C. ANIMALS. for capital felony in killing gelding, 1086 capital felony for maining cows, 1087 on same act for maiming gelding in field, in another form, 1087 on same act for poisoning, 1088 CHAP. XVI. INDICTMENTS FOR OFFENCES TO REAL PROPERTY. FOR BURGLARY. Preliminary notes. offence, 1090 place in which burglary may be committed, 1090 indictment, 1095 plea, 1099 verdict, 1099 punishment, 1100 rewards, 1100 Precedents of indictments for burglary, 1100 for burglary laying intent to steal as well as actual theft, 1100 for burglary with intent to steal, 1101 against principal and accessaries before fact, for stealing plate from Magdalen college chapel, 1101 for sacrilege, 1102 for burglary with intent to steal, and actual stealing to value of 408. in dwelling house, 1102 on 12 Ann, c. 7. for burglary in breaking out of house, 1102 for burglary in breaking in with intent to commit felony, and breaking out, on 12 Ann, c. 7.1103 FOR ARSON, Preliminary notes. offence, 1104 indictment, 1107 evidence, 1108 punishment, 1108 Precedents of indictments for arson. 1108 for setting fire to dwelling house, 1109 on 9 Geo. I. c. 22. for wilfully burning house of another 1109 on same act for setting fire to hay stack, 1109 on 9 Geo. I. c. 22. for setting fire to place of confinement in borough, 1110 on 9 Geo. I. c. 22, for feloniously procuring person the promise of money to join in setting fire to hay stack, 1110 for felony on 9 Geo. III. c. 28. for setting fire to cotton mill, 1110 for misdemeanor at common law setting fire to floor in defendant's own house, 1111 at common law against lodger for setting fire to part of for misdemeanor in attempt to burn his own house, 1112 on 12 Geo. III. c. 24. for felony in setting fire to king's stores FOR MALICIOUS MISCHIEF TO REAL PROPERTY. for felony in breaking down head and mound of fish pond whereby fish were lost, 1115 on 9 Gco. I. c. 22. felony in maliciously cutting down trees, on 22 Geo. III. for forcibly entering dwelling house with in- on 10 Geo. II. c. 32. for going armed with fire arms into roy- FOR FORCIBLE ENTRIES AND DETAINERS. Preliminary notes. offence, 1120 indictment, 1122 plea, 1123 award of restitution, 1123 Precndents, indictments for forcible entry and detainers, 1123 indictments at common law for forcible entry and expulsion from possession, 1124 for forcible entry and detainer on statutes, 1125 for forcible entry into freehold, on 5 and 15 R. 2. 1125 at common law for entering public house and making noise, 1126 CHAPTER XVII. FOR OFFENCES RELATIVE TO SHIPS AND SEA. FOR PIRACY, &c. Preliminary notes. offence, 1127 indictment, 1130 Precedents of Indictments. against several persons for piratically taking and carrying away a ship with its tackle, &c. and certain goods on board same, 1130 for piracy, by causing revolt in merchant ship, and running for stealing and running away with ship tackle, &c. 1131 against seaman for running away with boat belonging to 1133 for assault on captain of ship with intent to murder him, and some of his crew who had mutinied against him, 1133 for felony in admiralty court, on 4 Geo. I. c. 12. s. 3. for burning ship, having merchandize on board, 1134 for sinking ship to defraud underwriters, 1135 for stealing from ship wrecked in Wales, 1135 for felony, stealing to the value of forty shilings in ship and on navigable river, 1137 CHAP. XVIII. INDICTMENTS FOR CONSPIRACY. Preliminary notes. offence, 1138 modes of prosecution, 1142 indictment, 1142 evidence, 1143 new trial, &c. 1143 punishment, 1144 Precedents of indictments for conspiracy. general form of, 1145 for conspiracy to release man from custody of marshal, by becoming bail under fictitious names, 1145 for conspiracy to cause sheriff's officer to arrest wrong person, &c. by personating party against whom writ was issued, 1148 for conspiracy by persons confined in K. B. for debt to effect their own escape and that of others, 1149 Crim. Law. VOL. II. f against several prisoners for riot in K. B. prison, and attempting to blow up wall thereof with gunpowder, &c. 1150 for beginning to break down part of wall, 1150 for making hole in wall, and placing gunpowder in it, 1151 for conspiracy to persuade a man not to give evidence against one committed for putting off bad money, 1152 against two persons for conspiring that one of them should rob the other with intent to charge hundred, 1156 against two parish officers for conspiring to persuade poor couple to marry in order to burthen man's parish with maintenance of woman, 1157 for conspiracy and promising to procure license, wedding ring, and dinner, &c. 1158 for conspiring to cheat his majesty by producing false dice to be played with, 1160 for conspiracy and producing false dice, 1160 for conspiracy to seduce artificers and to convey machinery to foreign parts, 1161 for conspiracy among journeymen to raise wages, and lessen time of labour, 1163 against several salt makers for conspiring to enhance price of salt, 1164 against journey men serge weavers for refusing to work for master who had employed man contrary to certain rules entered into by conspiracy, 1166 for conspiracy by journeymen manufacturers to raise price of labour, &c. and breaking open prison, 1167 against master rope makers for conspiracy not to employ journeymen who had left last master without consent, 1169 for conspiracy to hold a man to bail for sum of 11007. 1169 for conspiracy to indict innocent man for perjury, 1171 for indicting person for forging stamps, 1174 for conspiracy to charge man with having stolen goods from one of conspirators, and thereby obtaining promissory note and money from prosecutor, 1174 for conspiring to lay information against prosecutor for illegal insurance and obtain money to compromise, 1176 for conspiracy to charge person with being father of bastard. child, 1179 for conspiracy and defrauding person of 501. under pretence. of procuring his son an office, 1180 for conspiracy to charge a man with receiving stolen goods, and thereby obtaining money, for compounding same, &c. 1182 for conspiring to charge man with rape, and indicting him, 1183 for conspiring to charge man with committing unnatural crime, &c. 1184 at common law for conspiracy to defraud prosecutor of 5000/ worth of bills of exchange under pretence of getting them discounted, 1184 for general conspiracy to defraud, stating no overt acts, 1186 for conspiracy by defendant to obtain possession of wool, by pretending to be merchants, &c. 1186 for conspiracy by curate and officers of parish to defraud sufferers by fire of money collected by brief for their relief, 1188 for conspiracy to break into dwelling house with felonious intent to steal goods therein, 1190 for conspiracy to pull down wall, &c, 1191 |