A Digest of the Law of Criminal Procedure in Indictable Offences |
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... time imperfectly , nor for stating the offence to have been committed on a day subsequent to the finding of the indict- ment , or on an impossible day , or on a day that never happened . Illustrations . 1. A is indicted for burglary ...
... time imperfectly , nor for stating the offence to have been committed on a day subsequent to the finding of the indict- ment , or on an impossible day , or on a day that never happened . Illustrations . 1. A is indicted for burglary ...
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DIGEST OF THE LAW OF CRIMINAL James Fitzjames Sir Stephen, 1829-1894,Herbert Sir Stephen, 1857 No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 95 - A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered to a foreign state unless provision is made by the law of that state, or by arrangement, that the fugitive criminal shall not, until he has been restored or had an opportunity of returning to Her Majesty's dominions, be detained or tried in that foreign state for any nffenee committed prior to his surrender other than the extradition crime proved by the facts on which the surrender is grounded...
Page 94 - Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, or director, or member, or public officer of any company made criminal by any Act for the time being in force.
Page 80 - ... cause the same to be delivered, to the proper officer of the court in which the trial is to be...
Page 104 - ... are authenticated by the oath of some witness or by being sealed with the official seal of the minister of justice, or some other minister of state...
Page 103 - Officer of the foreign State, where the same were taken to be the original depositions or statements, or to be true copies thereof, as the case may require ; and (3.) If the certificate of or judicial document stating the fact of conviction...
Page 99 - Kingdom, on such information or complaint and such evidence or after such proceedings as would in the opinion of the person issuing the warrant justify the issue of a warrant if the crime had been committed or the criminal convicted in that part of the United Kingdom in which he exercises jurisdiction.
Page 109 - When a fugitive criminal is brought before the police magistrate, the police magistrate shall hear the case in the same manner and have the same jurisdiction and powers as near as may be as if the prisoner were .brought before him charged with an indictable offence committed in England.
Page 158 - ... with force and arms,' or of the occupation or place of residence of the accused, nor by the reason of the disqualification of any grand juror or grand jurors ; and in any indictment for murder or manslaughter it shall not be necessary to set forth the manner in which or the means by which the death of the deceased was caused, but it shall be sufficient in every indictment for murder to charge that the defendant did feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought kill and murder the deceased...
Page 61 - Any constable or peace officer may take into custody, without warrant, any person whom he shall find lying or loitering in any highway, yard, or other place, during the night, and whom he shall have good cause to suspect of having committed, or being about to commit, any felony against this Act, and shall take such person, as soon as reasonably may be, before a justice of the peace, to be dealt with according to law.
Page 95 - A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character...