Author : Francis Wharton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 1331280745
Precedents of Indictments and Pleas by Francis Wharton Pdf
Excerpt from Precedents of Indictments and Pleas: Adapted to the Use Both of the Courts of the United States and Those of All the Several States; Together With Notes on Criminal Pleading and Practice, Embracing the English and American Authorities Generally On submitting to the profession, in 1846, a Treatise on American Criminal Law, my first design was to have annexed to it a Collection of Precedents of Indictments and Pleas, suited to the use of practitioners throughout the Union. The great number of forms, however, which the varying systems of the federal and state courts made necessary, and the large amount of notes called for both by the newness of the material and by the increasing intricacy of criminal pleading, led to a variation from my original plan. The forms which are now presented, may be considered under three classes: first, those which have been directly sustained by the courts; second, those which have been prepared by eminent pleaders, but which have not been judicially tested; and third, those which have been drawn from the English books. Those composing the first class, wherever the pleading in the particular case is not set out in the report, have been made up by recourse to the records of the court in which the trial took place. In preparing the second, I have to acknowledge my indebtedness to the printed volume of Mr. Daniel Davis, for many years Solicitor-General of Massachusetts, and to a manuscript collection, begun in 1778 by Mr. Bradford, Attorney-General successively of Pennsylvania and of the United States, and continued by Mr. J. D. Sergeant, Mr. Jared Ingersoll, Mr. Charles Lee, Mr. Rawle, Mr. A. J. Dallas and Mr. Rush, who were either his cotemporaries or his immediate successors in the state or federal prosecutions. In selecting the forms which fall under the third head, I have relied chiefly on the treatises of Mr. Starkie, Mr. Archbold and Mr. Dickinson, introducing in addition a series of indictments, which have been sustained by the English courts since the date of those publications. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.