Excerpt from The Law of Crimes and Criminal Procedure, Including Forms and Precedents This work is designed to present in a compendious form the law of crimes and criminal procedure as established in the United States and administered in the state and national tribunals. It is intended to contain a complete statement ot the common law, including such statutory enlargements and modifications as are of general application. Mere commentary and discussion have been avoided, the aim being to give in terse paragraphs an explicit statement of the existing law. Verbiage and needless repetition have been carefully guarded against, and the author has been solicitous, that his work throughout should be characterized by thorough accuracy and clearness. Where there is a conflict of ruling and opinion, he has cited the opposing authorities, or referred to authorities giving the opposing views, but has never hesitated to state as law in positive terms what appeared to him to be the correct doctrine according to the weight of reason and authority. The utmost care was observed in the matter of the citation of authorities with a special View to avoiding, not only inaccurate and wrong references, but more particularly the great evil of the useless and embarrassing multiplication of citations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.