A comparative view of the punishments annexed to crime in the United States of America and in England / by J. Sydney Taylor.

  • Taylor, J. Sydney (John Sydney), 1795-1841.
Date:
1831
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Credit: A comparative view of the punishments annexed to crime in the United States of America and in England / by J. Sydney Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    ment in the penitentiary not less nowh orhereaftermay beestab- than one, nor more than ten years, by chaner or act o par- Forging of any cheque, post hament—Bcatt). note, or order on any bank, or , To utter any such forged trans- attempting to obtain money by knowing them to means of such forged cheque— be or^d tiCatQ. confinement in the penitentiary not T® forge or alter any power o less than two, nor more than ten attorney, or other authority, to transier any share or interest, oi Forging of any land warrant stock, annuity, issued by the State, or U. S. or ‘Capital stock before any bill of credit, record, deed, mentioned or to receive any divi- will, note, or bond—confinement not *^®nd payable m respect of any less than one, nor more than ten share, or interest tifatip. 10 utter any such forged power ^ Forging or counterfeiting the attorney as before described brand or mark of any 'inspector of knowing the same to be forged, tobacco, or exporting tobacco with demand, or endeavor to have such forged brand or mark, with aay such shaie or interest trans- inient to defraud-confinement in any dividend the penitentiary not less than one, PayaWe m respect thereof, by vir- nor more than ten years. ‘ae of any such forged or altered '' power or attorney, knowing the same to be forged or altered, with intent to defraud— To falsely personate any owner of such share, or interest, or dividend, and thereby transfer any share or interest belonging to such owner, or thereby receive any money due to such owner, as if such person were the lawful owner— are probisions of trulg {sanguinarg lato! The other offences contained in the statute relative to forgery are visited with various degrees of punishment, from transportation for life—to transportation for seven years, and from imprisonment for four years—to imprisonment for one year, allowing the court the power of making the whole, or any part, of the imprisonment solitary, or of adding to it hard labor or not, at its discretion. Cattle-Stealing. Cattle^stealing, In New Hampshire — hard labor not less than three, nor more than seven years. In other States the crime is punished as simple larceny. All cattle-stealing was punish- able only as simple larceny by the common law. The statute passed in the 14th year of George II. which made sheep-stealing a ca- pital offence, also extended the penalty of death to the stealing of other sorts of cattle. The cattle to which the act applied were more particularly specified by the act of the 15 George II. cap. 34. Sir Robert Peel, in amending the law, repealed those statutes and then re-enacted their sanguinary provisions, along with those addi- tional capital offences of his own creating which we have adverted to under the head of sheep-stealing. By Sir Robert Peel’s act the 7 & 8 Geo. IV. cap. 29, the law stands at present as follows— To steal any bull, ox, cow, or heifer—death.