RESERVED FOR CONSIDERATION,

AND

DECIDED BY THE JUDGES OF ENGLAND,

FROM THE YEAR 1850 TO THE YEAR 1851.

BY

STEPHEN CHARLES DENISON,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

CONTINUED

FROM TRINITY TERM, 1851, TO TRINITY TERM, 1852.

BY

ROBERT ROUIERE PEARCE,

OF GRAY'S INN, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

STEVENS AND NORTON; S SWEET, AND W. MAXWELL,

LAW BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS.

PREFACE.

THE Cases in the present Volume up to Trinity Term, A. D. 1851, including Hogan's case, p. 280, are reported by Mr. DENISON.

For the remainder of the Volume I am responsible; and my endeavour has been to emulate the fidelity and accuracy of my learned predecessor, which have gained for this series of Reports the approbation of the Bench and of the Profession at large.

At the suggestion of several friends of great experience, I have reported, together with all the Crown Cases Reserved under 11 & 12 Vict. c. 78, decided up to this date, Crown Cases, ejusdem generis, argued and determined in the Queen's Bench and the Courts of Error; in this particular, following the plan of the elder Reporters of Crown Law, and supplying a deficiency frequently felt by those engaged in the practice of the Criminal Law.

I have to express my most grateful acknowledgments to several of the learned Judges, who have kindly favoured me with cases, MS. notes, and the written judgments of their Lordships, which favours are more particularly acknowledged in the course of the Volume.

TEMPLE, June 26, 1852.

ROBERT ROUIERE PEARCE.