Digest of Criminal Rulings in 146 Vols. of Law Reports, [1834-85].

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Página 21 - Where several persons are proved to have combined together for the same illegal purpose, any act done by one of the party, in pursuance of the original concerted...
Página 105 - ... successors, in our or their privy council, full power and authority upon the humble petition at any...
Página 65 - Whoever, having a husband or wife living, marries in any case in which such marriage is void by reason of its taking place during the life of such husband...
Página 27 - An accomplice shall be a competent witness against an accused person ; and a conviction is not illegal merely because it proceeds upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice.
Página 21 - Explanation 5. — It is not necessary to the commission of the offence of abetment by conspiracy that the abettor should concert the offence with the person who commits it. It is sufficient if he engage in the conspiracy in pursuance of which the offence is committed.
Página 763 - Government that the person delivered shall be properly taken care of, and, prevented from doing injury to himself or to any other person, and...
Página 729 - take it that when there is a case tried before a judge sitting "with a jury, and there arises any question of law mixed up "with the facts, the duty of the judge is to give a direction "upon the law to the jury, so far as is necessary to make them "understand the law as bearing upon the facts before them.
Página 569 - Punishment for verified shall contain any averment which the person making the verification knows or believes to be false, such person shall be subject to punishment according to the provisions of the law for the time being in force for the punishment of giving or fabricating false evidence.
Página 1249 - Magistrate or officer in charge of a policestation may command any unlawful assembly, or any assembly of five or more persons likely to cause a disturbance of the public peace, to disperse; and it shall thereupon be the duty of the members of such assembly to disperse accordingly.
Página 635 - Whoever dishonestly receives or retains any stolen property, knowing or having reason to believe the same to be stolen property, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.

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