FIRST COLUMN. or other object, kill a man; or let a stone fall from a building, and the like. SECOND COL. Fine or impt. 4 to 24 weeks. 249. By Mischance in an unlawful pursuit-as where a person wantonly or maliciously whips a horse on which another is riding, or which is being driven by another, and death ensue to any one; or where heavy bodies are thrown from a high place, without due warning being given to persons underneath; or where a man fires at a deer, or other thing, without authority or right, and kills a man; or where men fight together in an affray, and one kills the other; or where a man wantonly, and not maliciously, uses some device to frighten another, and such frightening causeth his death; or where a man having a vicious bull, cow, horse, dog, or wild beast, does not use due diligence to prevent their doing harm, and they kill any one. 250. Murder is when a man of sound mind, and of the age Death. of discretion, killeth another unlawfully and maliciously. 251. And although he only intended great bodily harm, and not death-as where a person by way of revenge and in cold blood beats another with great violence, so that he in consequence die, although he might not intend to kill him. 252. Secretly administering poison or noxious drugs, to any woman quick with child, with a view to produce abortion, and thereby killing the woman. 253. Firing a gun, or riding a horse furiously among a number of persons, with intent to do great bodily harm to them, and killing one of them. #253. Murder, or the attempt to commit murder, combined with any crime of dishonesty, rape, incendiarism, or perjury, or the attempt to commit either; whether to facilitate the commission of the crime, to prevent detection, or from a cruel disposition. 254. Homicide is justifiable, when committed in execution of the judgment of the law, and according to its prescribed forms; in self-defence against a violent attack endangering life, or great bodily harm; in repelling the assault or demand of, or the scaling the walls of a house or its appurtenances, by, a robber; in attempting to apprehend a robber, who refuses to surrender when required; by a woman in defence of her own chastity; or by a man in defence of the chastity of his wife, daughter, or sister; by a public officer in executing a legal arrest, which is violently resisted by the sufferer. Death. Death. Death. Death, with previous amputation of the hands. FIRST COLUMN. Third Division.OFFENCES AGAINST AND IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. First Section.-OFFENCES IN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. 255. CONNIVANCE at the commission of a crime, by not attempting to stop the commission of it, nor to apprehend the misdoer, nor to raise a hue and cry for his apprehension, where any one of such acts might be performed without probable serious danger to the observer. 256. DISREGARD of PUBLIC DUTIES by INDIVIDUALS offering of a reward or promising pardon for the return of stolen goods, whether such reward or pardon be offered directly or indirectly. 257. REFUSAL of AID in suppressing a crime or offence, or in apprehending a criminal. -258, When called on by an individual to assist. -When called on by the civil power to assist. 259. Obstructing a landlord or his agent in distraining for rent. 260. Obstructing any indifferent person of respectable demeanour, who offers proof of his name, and description, and residence, in taking an offender against the laws into custody. 261. Rescuing his prisoner from the hands of such person. 262. Assaulting such person in the discharge of the above duty. 263. Obstructing a peace officer in executing a magistrate's warrant, or a process in law, or in taking an offender or accused person into legal custody. 264. Rescuing his prisoner, or goods seized, from the hand of such officer. 265. Assaulting a peace officer in the discharge of his duty. BREAKING PRISON. 266. Conveying instruments or other means to a criminal, to assist him in breaking prison, or affording personal assistance to the escape of a prisoner; 267. Corrupting gaolers to favor the escape of a pri soner. 268. A prisoner detained for trial, or under sentence, escaping from legal custody by stratagem, without personal violence or intimidation. FIRST COLUMN. SECOND COL. 269. Breaking prison with personal violence, or with deadly Trans. or hard weapons, displayed or concealed. labor for life. 270. Returning from Banishment within the term Trans. or solitary impt..for the remainder of the term thereof. 271. Returning from Transportation, Hard labor for life. CONTEMPTS OF COURT. 272. REFUSAL to attend upon the legal order of a magistrate, to answer to a charge, or to be examined as a witness. Fine or impt. 1 to 12 weeks 273. Refusal to give such evidence or explanation before a Fine or impt. magistrale, as shall be legally required. 274. Refusal to attend as one of a Jury, when duly sum moned. 275. Refusal to deliver a full, true, and particular account of effects and debts, to a commissioner of insolvency, when legally ordered to do so. 276. Refusal to attend as a witness, when duly summoned in any judicial proceeding in a court of law or equity.. 277. Refusal to attend, when duly summoned, to answer to a charge in any judicial proceeding in a court of law or equity. 278. Prosecutors, persons charged, witnesses, jurors, or judges, falsely alleging illness, or other unavoidable circumstance of delay, as an excuse for not performing their duty of attendance. 279. INTIMIDATING prosecutors, persons charged, witnesses, jurors, or judges, in the discharge of their respective duties, by violent clamor, threatnings; or acts of force, or forcibly detaining any such persons, to prevent the discharge of their respective duties. 280. BRIBING any such persons to absent themselves, or to suppress their testimony, or part of it. 281. PREVARICATION by a witness in the course of a legal examination; if in an examination before a magistrate. If in a court of law or equity. 282. Where the prevarication arises from an intention to injure an accused person, under trial in a court of law. 283 CORRUPTING by promises, offers, gifts, or presents, any public officer, in order to gain from him unjustly, a good or bad report, a favorable or unfavorable decision, or the grant or refusal of any place, employment, contract, or benefit whatever, within the discretion or ministry of such officer. 1 to 12 weeks. Fine or impt: 1 to 12 weeks. Fine or impt. 1 to 24 weeks. Fine or impt. 4 to 48 weeks, Fine or impt. 4 to 48 weeks. or outlawry. Fine or impt. 4 to 24 weeks. Fine or impt. 4 to 48 weeks. Fine or impt. 4 to 24 weeks. Fine or impt. 4 to 12 weeks. Fine or impt. 4to 24 weeks. Fine or impt! 4 to 48 weeks. Fine or impt. 4 to 12 weeks. FIRST COLUMN. 284. OUTRAGEOUS, VIOLENT, or CONTUMELIOUS CONDUCT by any person in a coURT OF LAW. 285. Gross misrepresentations of, or calumnious and unjust reflections upon, the official acts of any magistrate, spoken, printed, or published, or outrageous words, gestures, or threats directed toward him: SECOND COL. Fine or impt. 4 to 24 weeks. Fine or impt. 1 to 6 weeks. Fine or impt. 2 to 12 weeks. In the private exercise of his functions. 286. In the public exercise of his functions. 287. Assault or Battery committed on any magistrate, in the exercise of, or on occasion of, the exercise of his functions. 288. SEALS of papers, or other effects sealed up by order of any judicial or administrative authority, wilfully and without due authority broken: Through the act or contrivance of the person who has them in charge. 289. Forcibly and with personal violence against the person having them in charge. Fine or impt. 290. Clandestinely by any other person. 291. Extorting by force, violence, constraint, or intimidation, the signature to, or the surrender of any writing, legal instrument, or document whatever, containing or producing any obligation, conveyance, or release. PERJURY. 292. PERJURY is a wilful and deliberate false statement, made under a solemn oath, administered by or before a person legally authorized for that purpose. 293. A statement of facts sworn to be true, which the deponent knows not to be true, or, does not know to be true, such statement not being made in the course of a judicial proceeding. 294. Such statement being wilfully made in the course of a judicial proceeding, but upon matter which is not material to the case at issue. 295. Such statement being made in the course of a judicial proceeding, and upon matter which is material to the case at issue, whether the statement be believed or not. . Branding, and the maximum of penalty or damage which the false statement may have produced, or was cabelieved, or, solitary impt. 24 weeks culated to have produced, had it been with branding. 296. If the false witness have received any money, reward, or promise of reward, for his perjury. 297. SUBORNATION of PERJURY.-Procuring a man to commit perjury, by bribes, promises, threats, or other undue influence. Three months additional solitary impt. The same penalties as in cases of perjury according to their class. FIRST COLUMN. 298. A judge before whom any witness shall appear to have committed perjury, may direct the clerk of the court to prosecute such witness, or his suborner, if any, for his crime. 299. To convict a man of perjury, the evidence must be free from ambiguity, and the witnesses more numerous, than on the side of the accused of perjury. 300. A man condemned in damages, in consequence of an imputed perjury, shall not be a witness on trial of the perjury, unless he have previously paid such damages and also costs. 301. Quakers making solemn affirmation, wilfully and deliberately false, shall suffer as in cases of perjury. 302. CONCEALING SUSPICIOUS DEATHS.-Using artful means to conceal the death of an infant child, together with the fact of its previous birth. 303. Causing the corpse of a person to be concealed or secretly buried, who died under circumstances requiring the knowledge of the Coroner. 304. ILLEGAL COMBINATION in TRADE is when two or more persons instead of allowing commodities and wages to find their relative value by free individual barter, bind themselves by oath, covenant, or other mutual alliance, one to assist the other in raising or depressing the prices of articles of food, raiment, or lodging, or of the wages of labor: 305. By DEALERS OR MASTERS; as when two or more concurrently spread false rumors to affect the price of goods, or persuade dealers not to take goods to market, or not to sell under a certain price, or notify their intention to other dealers not to sell under a certain price, or offer a vender a higher price than he asks, or refuse to supply a dealer because he sells under a certain price, or agree to reduce the price of workmen's wages, or to extend their hours of work, and act upon any such agreement, or agree together or with others to fulfil any of the above acts. 306. By WORKMEN or LABORERS;-as when to obtain an advance of wages, to lessen the duration of working hours, or to decrease the quantity of work, two or more workmen acting in concurrence, or one of them intimidate or persuade any other workman from hiring himself to any master or conductor of a manufactory, or refuse to work at a manufactory with any other workmen, or raise or distribute money or any valuable thing to workmen out of employment, not being incapacitated by bodily or mental |