Treatise On The Law Of Actions On Penal Statutes In General Amer Ed PDF Download

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States, Vol. 1: Comprising a General View of the Criminal Jurisprudence of the Common and Civil Law, and a Digest of the Penal Statutes of the General Government, and of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Ohio Davis, the only American works bearing on the subject I have been able to discover, are devoted to an examination'of the duties of Justices of the Peace; and valuable as they are in the practice of the States to which they are adapted, cannot be considered as going further in the elementary exposition of criminal law than is necessary to a proper con sideration of their particular topics. To supply this defi ciency is not within the province of an annotator, forced as he is, by the necessity of his cfiice, to the close pursuit of his text over chasm and through waste; and it is for this reason that the American notes to the English Criminal text books, numerous and important as they are, fail in placing within the reach of the profession, the construction given by the American courts to the peculiarities arising out of American doctrine and practice. Thus, for instance, the cases which have been decided on the statutory offence of murder in the second degree, important as they are to the determination of every trial of homicide in the States of Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama, and Michigan, and abounding as they do with the result of the labors of some of the most eminent judges of the country, are only to be reached in the Reports in which they are scattered, and are consequently, from the want of any general work in which they may be found, but rarely made use of, except in the particular States in which they have severally occurred. 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.