Essay on the Penal Law of Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint)

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As a history of the criminal jurisprudence of Pennsylvania, they may be esteemed defective by the exclusion of most of the minor offences. But as an indiscriminate review of these, including a classification and notice of the long catalogue of injuries contra bo nos mores, would add little to the cause of penal improvement, and were not necessary to an exhibition of the general state of penalties, they were discarded as alien to the objects of the essay.

Egregious arrogance may be ascribed to one, who, destitute of experience in the Operation and effects of criminal laws, assumes the boldness and audacity of suggesting alterations in the penal sys tem. For these suggestions, whenever they shall occur, the author seeks his excuse in the circumstance of their being only obvious inductions from sound premises or incontestible facts.

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