A Table OF INDICTABLE OFFENCES NDER THE NEW CRIMINAL AND BANKRUPTCY LAW CONSO LIDATION ACTS, H REFERENCES TO THE PRESENT AND FORMER ACTS, AND THE PUNISHMENT PROVIDED FOR EACH OFFENCE. SEQUENT FELONY.-Upon conviction of any felony, not punishable with death (except simple larceny, which is provided for in the new act), committed after a previous conviction for felony, the Court may pass sentence of penal servitude for life, or for any term not less than three years, or to be imprisoned (with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement and whipping) for any term not exceeding four years. See 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28, ss. 9, 11; 20 & 21 Vict. c. 3. RECOGNIZANCE AND SURETIES.--Upon conviction of any indictable misdemeanor under the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts, the Court may, in addition to or in lieu of the punishment awarded, fine the offender and require him to enter into his own recognizances and to find sureties, both or either, for keeping the peace and being of good behaviour. And in case of any felony punishable under those acts, the Court may require such recognizances and sureties in addition to the punishment authorized. But no person shall be imprisoned for not finding sureties for any period exceeding one year. ARY CONFINEMENT, where authorized, may be directed for any portion or portions of the imprisonment, not exceeding one month at any one time, and not exceeding three months in any one year. PING is limited to males under the age of sixteen years (excepting the case of taking a reward to recover stolen property, in which it is extended to eighteen years), and, where authorized, the Court may sentence the offender to be once privately whipped, and the number of strokes and the instrument with which they shall be inflicted shall be specified by the Court in the sentence. ABDUCTION of a woman against her will from motives of lucre fraudulent, of any woman under 21) against the will of her father, &c. by force, of any woman, with intent to marry or carnally know ABORTION. Administering poison or using Supplying or procuring poison or instru ment, knowing the intent to use same F. F. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 53.. 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, s. 19 14 3 2 .. M. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 28, ss. 15, 19 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, s. 20 10 Geo. 4, c. 34, s. 24 ACCUSING, or threatening to accuse of infa 9 Geo. 4, c. 56, s. 33 1 Will. 4, c. 66, s. 25 2 Will. 4, c. 34, s. 18 c. 100, s. 6710 Geo. 4, c. 34, s. 40 mous crime, &c., to extort or gain.. F. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 96, s. 47 M. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 96, s. 78 2 2 L. 3 2 7 3 2 AGENT or factor consigning goods by way of clerk of, assisting converting goods to his own use.-See "Banker." APPRENTICE or servant. Master refusing or neglecting to provide food, &c., or doing bodily harm, so that life endangered or health permanently in.. jured AQUEDUCT, pulling down.- See "Bridge." M. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 26.. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 11, s. 1 3 3 2 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 89, ss. 3, 12 9 & 10 Vict. c. 24, s. 1 7 Will.4 & 1 Vict. c. 89, s. 3 anything in, against or under build F. s. 5 F. s. 6 any F. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 62, ss. 2, 3 14 & 15 Vict. c. 19, s. 8 14 3 2 W. ing the setting fire to which is felony attempt, of building or anything in, &c... F. crops, wood, coppice, plantation, heath, gorse, furze, fern བ ART, science or literature, destroying or da- M. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 97, s. 39 maging any work of *ASSAULT.-See "Clergyman," "Magistrate,"| "Officer," "Sodomy." with intent to commit felony to resist or prevent lawful apprehension or detainer of self or another 9 & 10 Vict. c. 25, ss. 7, 9, 11 14 8 & 9 Vict. c. 44, ss. 1, 4 17 & 18 Vict. c. 33, s. 6 } M. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 38 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, s. 25 M. 10 Geo. 4, c. 34, s. 31 } in pursuance of conspiracy to raise wages, or respecting any trade, or any person employed therein occasioning actual bodily harm common indecent, upon any female indecent, upon any male with intent to rob.-See "Robbery." ATTEMPT to murder.-See "Murder." to discharge loaded arms.-See "Shoot." ATTORNEY Converting goods, &c., to his own use.-See "Banker." * By 24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 74, upon conviction of any assault, whether with or without battery and wounding, the Court may, in addition to sentence, adjudge the offender to pay to the prosecutor the costs of prosecution and allowance for loss of time; and unless the sum so awarded shall be sooner paid, the offender shall be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months in addition to the sentence. |