iv add to each volume, in the form of an appendix, the fosms used in criminal proceedings in the United States. They will be printed with the greatest care and accuracy. I hope the preface to this volume will be found useful as a reference, &c. The acts of congress have been copied verbatim, and the construction given to them by courts of justice, follow, each in their order so that the reader will have before him the statutes of the United States, and the adjudication of the courts upon them. If it can aid the learned, who have not time to look into a great number of books for principles collected within the small compass of this preface; or if it can assist those who are beginning their studies, and are at a loss for a connected and systematic view of the principles of criminal jurisprudence, I shall congratulate myself on being of some little service to those to whom I am always willing to be indebted; and for the time, expense and trouble, (for really it has cost me not a little of either,) shall consider myself amply remunerated. New York, July 15th, 1824. J. D. WHEELER. TABLE OF CASES TO THE SECOND VOLUME. Almeida. Habeas Corpus, 576 Arndt and others. Riot. Assault and battery, 236 Buckingham. Libel. Truth, when a justification, 428 Stamford. Assault, with attempt to commit a Rape, 152 Thompson. Malicious Stabbing, discharge of a jury, 473 Wood. Aiding and abetting in the robbery of the Mail. 325 |