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Bodily harm, grievous, stabbing, cutting, or wounding, with
intent to do, 262; indictment, 262; evidence, 263;
grievous bodily harm, what, 264.

Bodily injury, dangerous to life, doing, 269; indictment, 269;
evidence, 269.

Boiling water, throwing over a person, 281.--

Bond, forging, 556.

Boroughs, jurors in, 160.

Boundaries of counties, offences committed on, where tried,
65.

Boxing, death by, manslaughter, 236.

Boy under fourteen, cannot be guilty of rape, 305; but be
may be guilty of aiding and abetting another, 307.
Brass, fixed to a building, stealing, or cutting, ripping, &e,
with intent to steal, 411; indictment, 411; evidence, 412.
Breach of duty as a peace officer, bail for, 55.

Breach of the peace, constable may apprehend for, 28; but
not when committed out of view, without warrant, 26,
27.

Breach of prison, venue, 73.

Breaking bulk, by carrier or other bailee, and stealing, 384.
Breaking a dwelling-house, in burglary, 330; constructive
breaking, what, 331.

Breaking out of a dweiling-house, when burglary, 342; in-
dictment, 342; evidence, 343; breaking out, what, 343.
Breaking and entering a dwelling house, and stealing, 347;
indictment, 347; evidence, 347; verdict, 348.
Breaking and entering a building within the curtilage, and
stealing, 344; indictment, 344; evidence, 344.
Breaking and entering a church or chapel, and stealing, 350;
indictment, 350; evidence, 351.

Breaking and entering a shop, warehouse, or counting-house,
and stealing, 348; indictment, 348; evidence, 349.
Breaking lead, iron, &c., fixed to buildings, with intent to
steal, 411; indictment, 411; evidence, 412.

Breaking or damaging trees or shrubs, &c., 506; indictment,
506; evidence, 506.

Breaking or destroying, silk, woollen, linen, or cotton goods in
the loom, &c., 498; indictment, 498; evidence, 498.
Entering a building by force, to do so, 500; indictment,
500; evidence, 501.

Breaking or destroying warps of silk, cotton, &c., or certain
machinery, 499; indictment, 499; evidence, 499. En-
tering a building by force, to do so, 500; indictment,
500; evidence, 500.

Breaking open doors to arrest an offender, in what cases, 28.
244; if officer opposed and killed in doing so, murder or
manslaughter, 244.

Breaking down the dam of a fish-pond, 515; indictment, 515;
evidence, 516.

Breaking down the dam of a mill-pond, 517; indictment,

517; evidence, 517.

Breaking down sea or river banks, and overflowing lands,
512; indictment, 512; evidence, 512.

Bridge, destroying or damaging, 517; indictment, 517;
evidence, 518.

Bridge of a mine, destroying or damaging, 510; indictment,
510; evidence, 510.

Broker selling or converting goods or securities entrusted to
him for safe keeping or for a special purpose, 459; in-
dictment, 459; evidence, 460.

Building within the curtilage, breaking and entering, and
stealing, 344; indictment, 344; evidence, 344.

Building used in farming land, setting fire to, 491; indiet-
ment, 491; evidence, 491,

Building, lead or iron, &c., fixed to, stealing, 411; indiet-
ment, 411; evidence, 412.

Building, entering by force, to destroy goods in process of
manufacture, or machinery, 500; indictment, 500;

evidence, 501.

setting fire to, 485;
Riotously beginning
evidence, 494.

Building used in carrying on trade, &c.,
indictment, 485; evidence, 485.
to demolish, 494; indictment, 494;
Building used for mines, destroying or damaging, 510; in-
dictment, 510; evidence, 511.

Building belonging to a railway, dock, canal, or navigation,
setting fire to, 521; indictment, 521; evidence, 521.
Building belonging to a turnpike, throwing down or destroy-
ing, 518; indictment, 518; evidence, 518.

Bulk, breaking, by carrier or other bailee, and stealing, 384.
Bull, stealing, 398; indictment, 398; evidence, 398.
Burglariously, in indictment for burglary, 91.

Burglary, 328; indictment, 328;-evidence, 330, of the break-

ing, 330, the entering, 332, of the dwelling-house, 333,
ownership, 336, and situation, 339, and the intent, 340;
verdict, 341; principals, 341.

Burglary and personal violence, 341; indictment, 341; evi-
dence, 341.

Burglary by breaking out of a house, 342; indictment, 342;
evidence, 343.

Burials, registers of, evidence, 145.

Burning a house, out-house, &c., 485; indictment, 485;
evidence, 486.

Burning a house, any person being therein, 489; indictment,
489; evidence, 490.

Burning farm buildings, 491; indictment, 491; evidence, 491.
Burning hay, straw, &c., in a farm building, with intent to set
fire to the building, 492; indictment, 492; evidence, 492.
Burning a church or chapel, 493; indictment, 493; evi-
dence, 493.

Burning crops of corn, plantations, &c., 502; indictment, 502;
evidence, 503.

Burning stacks of corn, hay, peat, &c., 503; indictment,
503; evidence, 504.

Burning or setting fire to mines, 507; indictment, 507; evi-
dence, 508.

Burning stations, warehouses, &c., belonging to railways,
docks, canals, &c., 521.

Burning ships, 526; indictment, 526; evidence, 527. Burn-
ing ships, whereby life is endangered, &c., 525; indict-
ment, 525; evidence, 526. Burning ships to prejudice
the owner or underwriters, 527. Attempt to burn ships,

mines, buildings, &c., 629.

Butler stealing plate, 386.

Buying forged bank notes, 555,

C.

Cabinet, any matter of art, science, or object of curiosity, kept
in, damaging or destroying, 521; indictment, 521 ; evi-
dence, 522.

Calf, stealing. See " Cattle."

Canal, larceny during a journey on, venue, 65.

Canal, stealing from a vessel on, 438; indictment, 437; evi-
dence, 438.

Canal, breaking down the banks of, 512; indictment, 512;
evidence, 512. Destroying locks, sluices, &c., 513; in-
dictment, 513; evidence, 513. Drawing up piles, &c,
in the banks, 514; indictment, 513; evidence, 514.
Drawing up flood-gates, or doing other damage, 514;
indictment, 514; evidence, 515. Setting fire to ware-
houses, &c., belonging to, 521; indictment, 521; evi-
dence, 521.

Cannel coal, stealing, from mines, 415; indictment, 415;
evidence, 416.

Cannel coal, mine of, setting fire to, 507; indictment, 507;
evidence, 508.

Capias, writ of, in criminal cases, 102. Capias cum pro-
clamatione, in what cases, 103. Capias utlagatum, and
special capias utlagatum, 103.

Caption of indictment, 76; form of it at the assizes, 76; at
the sessions, 77.

Carding wool, &c., machines used in, destroying or damaging,
499; indictment, 499; evidence, 499.

Carelessness, offences committed through, 9; homicide from,
219, 220. 214.

Caricature, libel by, 319.

Carnally knowing a girl under ten, 311; indictment, 311;
evidence, 312. Carnally knowing a girl between the ages
of ten and twelve, 312; indictment, 312; evidence, 313.
A boy under fourteen cannot be convicted of it, 3.

Carrier, larceny by, 384. 385.

Carrying away, in larceny, 362. 379; in robbery, 422.
Case for the criminal appeal court, what it shall state, 195.
Cast on shore, ships, stealing from, 440; indictment, 440;
evidence, 441. Destroying, 531; indictment, 531; evi-
dence, 532. Impeding a person saving himself from,
532; indictment, 532; evidence, 532.

Casting away ships, whereby life is endangered, 525; indict-
ment, 525; evidence, 526.

Casting away ships, to prejudice the owner or underwriters,
527; indictment, 527; evidence, 528.

Cat, not the subject of larceny at common law, 363.

Cattle, stealing, 398; indictment, 398; evidence, 398. Kill-

ing, with intent to steal the carcase, 401; indictment,
401; evidence, 401. Maliciously killing or wounding,
523; indictment, 523; evidence, 523.

Caution to prisoner, upon his examination before a magistrate,

42. 131.

Caution, want of, in doing an act, homicide from, man-
slaughter or murder, 218.

Central criminal court, have jurisdiction of all offences com-
mitted at sea, 66; in what other cases, 75; form of the
venue, 66, 75.

Certainty required in indictment, 87-89. 91; exceptions,
89, 90.

Certificate on commitment, of the magistrates consent to bail,
57; form of it, 57.
Certificate of former conviction, as proof upon a trial for a
subsequent felony, 143; of acqui'tal or conviction, as
proof of a plea of auterfois acquit or convict, 143.

Certificate of the clerk of assize or of the peace, of a decision
of the criminal appeal court, 197.

Certificate of indictment being found, to obtain a warrant
against the defendant, 105; form of it, 105.

Certificate on recognizance, of party not having appeared in
pursuance of it, 37; form of it, 39.

Certificate of registry of a ship, evidence of what, 146.
Challenge to fight, sending, venue, 74.

Challenge of jurors, 1C3. 101: to the array, 163, form of it,
164, and how tried, 165;-challenge to the polls, how,
164;-peremptory challenge in treason, 163. 566, in
felony, 163.

Chance, offences committed by, and not designedly, 9; homi-
cide so committed, 216.

Chancellor, killing, treason, 567.

Chapel, breaking into, and stealing, 350; indictment, 350,
351; evidence, 351. Setting fire to, 493; indictment,
493; evidence, 493. Riotously beginning to demolish,
494; indictment, 494; evidence 494.

Chapel, protestant, marriage in, 611; dissenting, marrjage in,

611.

Character, witnesses as to, 123.

Charcoal, setting fire to a stack of, 503; indictment, 503;
evidence, 504.

Charging the grand jury, 161; the petty jury, 165.

Chasing deer, in inclosed places, 402; indictment, 402; Levi-
dence, 402. In uninclosed places, 403; indictment, 403;
evidence, 404.

Cheating by false pretences, 463. Cheat at common law, 473.
Cheating by working miners, 417.

Cheque, forgery of, 556. 558.

Cheque, larceny of, 392. 364; indictment, 391. 993. 364;
evidence, 392.

Child in the womb, not the subject of homicide, 211; but if
after being brought forth, it die of an injury received
before, it is otherwise, 211, 212.

Child may justify homicide in defence of parent, 225; and
parent, in defence of child, 225.

Child, concealing the birth of, 297; indictment, 297; evidence,
298; what a concealment, 298.

Child, stealing, 299; indictment, 209; evidence, 300.
Chinese, may be witnesses, 150.

Chloroform, using, for the purpose of committing a felony,
432; indictment, 432; evidence, 432.

Church, breaking into, and stealing, 350; indictment, 350;
evidence, 351. Stealing lead, iron, or fixtures, &c., from,
412; indictment, 411; evidence, 412. Setting fire to,
493; indictment, 493; evidence, 493. Riotously begin-
ning to demolish, 494; indictment, 494; evidence,
494. Destroying or damaging any monument, pic-
ture, or statue in it, 522; indictinent, 522; evidence,
523.
Circumstantial evidence, what, and in what cases, 134; of
larceny, 369; in what cases, 371.

City, county of, offences in, where to be tried, 64; venue, 64.
Claim of right, in what cases it prevents a taking from being
deemed larceny, 365.

Clerk, larceny by, 442. 393. 387; indictment, 442; evidence,
443.

Clerk, embezzlement by, 446; indictment, 446, evidence, 449.
The like by a clerk of a benefit society, 451; clerk of
the guardians of a union, 451; clerk of a savings' bank,
451.

Clothing, not providing for apprentices, &c., 292; indictment,
291; evidence, 292.

Coach-house, setting fire to, 485; indictment, 485; evidence,
486. Riotously beginning to demolish, 494; indictment,
494; evidence, 494.

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