Proclamation prevented, 186
May be read before violence done, 186
Person joining mob after reading, 186
RIOTING, 187.-See Mobbing.
RIVER. Jurisdiction in, 250, 251
ROAD.--Taking game on, 189
ROB.-Assault with intent to, 157
ROBBERY.-Definition of, 53
Distinction from stouthrief, 53
Taking need not be from the person, 53
Nor violence applied to the person, 54
Violent conduct producing fear, 54
Reasonableness of fear depends on
facts, 54
Sudden snatch not robbery, 54
Unless accompanied by blow or hold-
ing, 54
Article dropped and picked up by
assailant, 54
Use of weapons not essential, 54, 55
Violence induced by owner's resistance,
55
Resolution to take subsequent to attack,
Article carried off in heat of scuffle, not
robbery, 55
Violence by threat, must be of present
injury, 55
Exaction of promise not r., 55, 56
Violence subsequent to taking not r.,
Nor resistance to owner trying to re-
cover article, 56, and note 1
Previous violence, but disconnected
from taking, 56
Violence producing incapacity to re-
sist, 56
Value of article no matter, 56
Violent taking of writing, 56
Taking forcible payment of debt, 56, 57
Amotio in robbery, 57
Same rules as theft, 57.-See 26 to 28
Hab. and rep. of theft not aggravation,
57
Prev. conv. of theft an aggravation, 57
Housebreaking, aggravation, 58
Offender a police officer, aggravation,
Punishment, 58
Modus in charge of, 360
Statement of particulars of assault not
essential, 360
ROYAL FORCES.--See Soldiers.
RUNNING LETTERS.-On commitment de-
mand to have day fixed for trial, 268
Not competent in treason till forty days
after, 268
Application to Court that can try
offence, 268
In Supreme Court case, intimation to
Lord Advocate, 268
RUNNING LETTERS-continued.
And Supreme Court can alone order
intimation to him, 268
Where commitment in Supreme Court,
application must be made there, 268,
269
In other cases to inferior judge, 269
Private party concerned, intimation to
him essential, 269
Petition with double of warrant by
jailor presented to judge, 269
Gives out letters within 24 hours, 269
No libel served, in sixty days prisoner
liberated, 269
Can only be re-incarcerated on Last
Criminal Letters, 269
Statute not applicable if party not in
prison when intimation sought, 269
But liberation after intimation does not
destroy it, 269
Unless bailed on his own request, 269
Where libel sent to trial, forty days
allowed to bring it to sentence, 269,
270
Thirty days in Sheriff Court, 270
Days computed after the sixty, 270
Question where diet is more than forty
within the sixty, 270
When intimation is after service of
libel, another may be served, 270
If first proceeded with, brought to sen-
tence in forty days, 270
If assize sworn, and trial not completed
in forty days, absolvitor follows, 270
Unless case of illness or like, 270, 271
Libel may fall and criminal letters be
served, 271
Where first libel irrelevant, can warrant
to detain till Crim. Letters prepared,
be granted, 271
Last Crim. Letters, 271
But must be new Letters, 272
Same must be brought to sentence in
forty days from re-commitment, 272
Or if accused in prison, forty days of
service, 272
Unless this done, absolvitor, 272
No matter what causes failure, 272
Limit not applied if accused left at
large, 307
But liberation after re-incarceration
does not elide limitation, 272
Delays at accused's desire, 272
Application should be recorded, 272
Form of application for liberation, 273
To whom to be made, 273
SABBATH BREAKING, 204
SAILORS, ROYAL.-On duty, 141, 142.—For
particulars see Soldiers.
Seducing to mutiny or desertion, 231
SEAL.-Counterfeiting Great, treason, 224
Sealed Packet- Sheriff-Officer.
SEALED PACKET.-Lodged as production, SENTENCE-continued.
Accused should apply before trial to
have it opened, 453
SEARCH WARRANT-Usually part of war-
rant to arrest, 280
But may be separate, 280
General warrant not legal, 280
Search as to private documents, war-
rant should be specially guarded, 280
Rules in executing search-warrant, 280,
SEAS, HIGH.-Aiding prisoner of war to
escape on, 233, 234
Jurisdiction over, 245
Latitude in locus of crime on, 309
SEAS, NARROW.-Treason within the, 224
SECRETING, letters, newspapers, &c., 71, 72
by insolvent, 100, 101
SECURITY. For good behaviour, 17
SEDITION.--Definition of, 229
Criticism or declamation not S., 229
Unless so done as to incite, 221
Positive intention not essential, 229
Modus in libel for, 428, 429
SEDUCING AND DEBAUCHING CHILDREN, 200,
SEDUCING TO MUTINY OR DESERTION, 231
SELLING forged notes, 100
Base coin, 106
SENTENCE.-Absolvitor, 525
Party's presence requisite unless spe-
cial case, 525
Detention where madness found, 525
On conviction prosecutor moves for,
526
Otherwise no sentence competent, 526
Plea in bar of judgment, 526
No sentence in absence, 526
Except outlawry, 526
Convict not in senses, s. delayed, 526
Plea in bar must be stated at once, 526
What pleas statable, 526
Trial going beyond month fixed for
Circuit, 227
Female convict pregnant, 527
Consistency of sentence with charge
and law, 527
Prayer for fine, sentence of imprison-
ment bad, 527
Statutory punishment not inflicted, 527
Alternatives made cumulative, 527
Imprisonment for undefined time, 527
Announcing and recording sentence,
Capital sentence, old form used, 527,
528
Sentence runs from its date, 528
May run from expiry of previous sen-
tence, 528
Capital sentence, rules as to time, 528
High Court may alter day, 528
No alteration in substance of sentence
lawful, 528
SEPARATION OF CHARGES, 465
SEPARATION OF TRIALS, 466
SEPULCHRES, 76, 77.-See Violating Graves.
SEQUESTRATION, FRAUDULENT, 100, 101
SERVANTS.--Attack on servant, when hame-
sucken, 165
Master cannot prosecute for injury to,
275, 276
SERVICE. Breach of, 175
Causing stoppage of gas or water, 175
Causing danger to life or property, 175
SERVICE COPY, LIBEL.-Full copy, 444
Does not include will of crim. letters,
444, 445
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Decision by Sheriff on relevancy, does
not bind Justiciary Court, 461
Decision on relevancy by Sheriff-Sub-
stitute binding on Sheriff, 461
No counsel at Circuit, Sheriffs ap-
pointed to defend, 460, note 7
May adopt statutory summary forms,
537
Or adhere to forms of own Court, 537
Not competent to plead on review that
Sheriff's law to jury bad, 545, 546
SHERIFF-CLERK.-Acting as Sheriff-Sub.
cannot take declaration, 257
SHERIFF COURT.-Limit under running
letters for concluding trial, 270, 271
Form of crim. letters in, 283
List of witnesses in, 446
Two diets in jury cases, 448
Lodging productions in, 452, 454
SHERIFF OFFICER.-Pretending to be, 90
Suspended S. O. pretending to act as, 90
May execute libel in his own county, 444
Sheriff-Substitute-Statutes.
Temporary, may | SOLDIERS-continued.
take declaration, 257
Judgment of Sheriff-Sub. on relevancy
binding on Sheriff, 461
But not on Justiciary Court, 461
SHIP.-Destroying, 115, 116
Question as to hamesucken, 164
Misconduct tending to loss of, 193
Jurisdiction over British, 245
Equipping against allies, 232, 233, 234
Destroying, modus, 394, 395
SHIPBREAKING.-Aggravation of theft, 36
With intent.-is it relevant? 74
SHOOTING. Statutory offence, 144
Smuggler shooting at preventive vessel
or officer, 236
SHOP.-Attack in, not hamesucken, 164
Shopbreaking, 29, note 2.-See House-
breaking.
SHORE. Jurisdiction extends three miles
from, 245
SHORT NOTICE OF CITATION, 448
SIGNALS.-Making-to smuggling ship, 235
SIGNATURE. Of declaration, 260
SILENCE.-Accused maintaining,-when ex-
amined, 259
SLANDER, 178, 179.-See False Accusation.
Of judges, 178
SMUGGLING. Being on board smuggling
ship, 234, 235
Making signal to smuggling vessel, 235
Three or more assembled for s., 235
Assemblage offensively armed, 235, 236
Shooting at preventive vessel or officer,
236
More than five disguised or armed,
near shore or tidal river, 236
Assaulting or obstructing preventive
officer, 236
Punishment, 236, 237
SOBER. Not being s. no excuse for crime,
13, and note 2
Prisoner under examination must be,
258
SOCIUS CRIMINIS.-Used as witness, cannot
be prosecuted, 463
Libel is the measure of indemnity, 463
Unauthorised promise of indemnity, 463
Bargain takes effect when party used
as witness, 463
Evidence of socii not sufficient, 516
SODOMY.-Crime in both parties, 200
Modus in libel for, 419, 420
SOLDIERS.-Taking life when on duty, 130
Must be truly on duty, 130
If act rashly, may be responsible, 130,
Not blamable if within rules of service,
141
Holding post need not wait till attacked,
142
Duration of plea of duty, 142
Protection of arms a paramount duty,
142
Assault on s. aiding civil power, 161
Or in charge of military prisoner, 161
Seducing to mutiny or desertion, 231
Liable for ordinary crimes, 242, 243
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, 17
SORCERY.-Pretence of, 91
SOUND AND SOBER SENSES.-Prisoner emit-
ting declaration must be in, 258
SOVEREIGN.-Treason against, 220 et seq.
Assault on the, 227, 228
Punishment, 228
SPECIAL DEFENCE.-Must be lodged day
before trial, 454
Alibi,-insanity, 454
Offence committed by another, 454
Self-defence, 454
Notice of attack on injured party's
character, 454, 455
Read when jury sworn, 471
SPECIAL JURORS.-Proportion of, 469
SPECIAL VERDICT.-Now not in use with-
out general finding prefixed, 520, 521
SPECULATIVE WRITING.-Not per se overt
act in treason, 221
SPITTING.-An assault, 153
SPOUSE.-Theft from, 21
Not a competent witness, 472, 473
Unless the injured party, 472
STABBING. Statutory offence, 144
Com. law assault by, 158
STATUTES.--Old 8. included in general
major, 287
Modern s.,- quoted in major, 288.-
For particulars see Major Proposition.
Minor states part of clause founded on,
294
Words of-to be used in minor, 295
By Queen's printer are evidence, though
not produced, 500
1350 (25 Edward III.) stat. 5. c. 2 (trea-
son) 220
1424 c. 45 (Corrupt conduct by officials)
207
1427 c. 107 (ditto) 207
1449 c. 17 (ditto) 207
1457 c. 76 (Negligence by officials) 207
1469 c. 26 (Partial judgment) 207
1474 c. 60 (Killing deer) 19
1525 c. 10 (Fireraising) 112
1528 c. 8 (Arrest) 252
1535 c. 13 (Killing hares) 19
1535 c. 35 (Caution by prosecutor, 278
1540 c. 38 (Fireraising) 112
1540 c. 104 (Judges) 177, 178, 207
1551 c. 19 (Bigamy) 196
1555 c. 33 (Citation) 446, 447
1567 c. 14, 15 (Incest) 198
STATUTES-continued.
1567 c. 33 (Arrest) 252
1579 c. 78 (Wrongous pursuit for crime)
1579 c. 84 (Dovecots) 19
1579 c. 93 (Corruption in judges) 207
1581 c. 110 (Mischief) 119
1581 c. 118 (Deforcement) 217
1587 c. 27 (Profanity) 204
1587 c. 59 (Wild animals) 19
1587 c. 83 (Mischief) 119
1587 c. 85 (Deforcement) 217
1587 c. 86 (Citation) 447
1587 c. 91 (Assigning counsel) 460
1587 c. 92 (Jury enclosed) 519
1592 c. 148 (Fireraising) 112
1592 c. 152 (Deforcement) 217
1592 c. 153 (Art and part) 297
1593 c. 170 (Caution) 278
1593 c. 177 (Assaulting judges) 160,
note 6
1600 c. 4 (Assaulting Privy Councillor,
&c.) 160
1612 c. 4 (Abduction) 170, (Prosecution)
277
1621 c. 22 (Forgery) 86
1661 c. 20 (Beating, &c., parents) 163
1661 c. 22 (Killing housebreaker) 142,
143, 252
1661 c. 34 (Marriage) 195
1672 c. 16 (C. of Justiciary) 246, (Cita-
tion) 445, (Jury) 519
1685 c. 43 (Induciæ) 449
1693 c. 27 (Open Court) 455
1696 c. 31 (Profanity) 540
1701 c. 6 (Members of Commons) 242,
(Commitment) 263, 264, (Bail) 265,
267, (Running letters) 268 et seq.--
See Running Letters.
1707 (6 Ann) c. 23 (Jurisdiction) 242
1708 (7 Ann) c. 21 (Fireraising) 112,
115, (Treason) 220, 224, 225
1717 c. 8 (Arrest) 252
1 Geo. I. c. 5 (Riot) 180, 185, 274
1 Geo. I. c. 48 (Fireraising) 112, 115
9 Geo. II. c. 5 (Pretended sorcery, &c.)
12 Geo. II. c. 28 (Gaming) 205
18 Geo. II. c. 27 (Theft, &c., from
bleachfields) 52, 64
18 Geo. II. c. 34 (Gaming) 205
20 Geo. II. c. 43 (Circuit Court) 249,
(Special defence) 454, (Appeal) 541,
13 Geo. III. c. 31 (Jurisdiction) 244
13 Geo. III. c. 54 (Prosecution) 276
17 Geo. III. c. 56 (Embezzlement) 64
23 Geo. III. c. 45 (Court of Justiciary)
248, 518
29 Geo. III. c. 46 (Destroying ship) 115,
(Housebreaking to destroy weaving
trade property) 74, 119
STATUTES-continued.
30 Geo. III. c. 17 (Circuits) 248
30 Geo. III. c. 48 (Treason) 225
36 Geo. III. c. 7 (Treason) 221
37 Geo. III. c. 70 (Mutiny) 231
37 Geo. III. c. 123 (Unlawful oaths) 230
39 Geo. III. c. 49 (Bail) 267
39 Geo. III. c. 85 (Embezzlement) 64
41 Geo. III. c. 57 (Private banks) 100
43 Geo. III. c. 113 (Destroying ship)
115
44 Geo. III. c. 92 (Jurisdiction) 244
45 Geo. III. c. 89 (Bank of England
100
45 Geo. III. c. 92 (Witnesses) 451
49 Geo. III. c. 14 (Con. of preg.) 147
51 Geo. III. c. 41 (Theft) 52, 53
52 Geo. III. c. 104 (Unlawful oaths) 230
52 Geo. III. c. 130 (Riot) 185
52 Geo. III. c. 156 (Assisting war pri-
soners) 233, 234
54 Geo. III. c. 67 (Verdict) 518
54 Geo. III. c. 146 (Treason) 225
54 Geo. III. c. 186 (Witnesses) 451
57 Geo. III. c. 6 (Treason) 221
57 Geo. III. c. 7 (Mutiny) 231
57 Geo. III. c. 90 (Poaching) 189
59 Geo. III. c. 69 (Foreign enlistment)
234
60 Geo. III. and 1 Geo. IV. c. 1 (Illegal
drilling) 231
4 Geo. IV. c. 34 (Jurisdiction) 245, 252
5 Geo. IV. c. 84 (Convict at large) 219,
(Jurisdiction) 245, 250
6 Geo. IV. c. 22 (Service copy) 446,
(Jury) 463, note 1, 468, 469
6 Geo. IV. c. 23 (Declaration) 257
6 Geo. IV. c. 47 (Blasphemy) 204, (Se-
dition) 229
6 Geo. IV. c. 66 (Jurisdiction) 242,
(Bail) 267
6 Geo. IV. c. 129 (Illegal combination)
177 (Warrant to arrest) 253
7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 20 (Jurisdiction) 247,
(Prosecution) 276
9 Geo. IV. c. 29 (Circuits) 248, 249,
(Declaration) 257, (Libel) 441, 442,
(Procedure) 442, 444 et seq. 467, 470,
471, 518, (Witness) 471, 518, (Sheriff
Court) 529
9 Geo. IV. c. 31 (Repeal) 115
9 Geo. IV. c. 39 (Arrest) 253, (Prose-
cution) 276
9 Geo. IV. c. 69 (Night-poaching) 188
et seq., 253, 274, 318, 411, (Pro-
cedure) 536
10 Geo. IV. c. 38 (Attempt to murder)
401 et seq.
11 Geo. IV. c. 54 (Jurisdiction) 245
11 Geo. IV. and 1 Will. IV. c. 37 (Cir-
cuits) 248, (Witnesses) 451, 471,
(Execution, capital sentence) 528
11 Geo. IV. and 1 Will. IV. c. 69 (Cir-
cuit Court) 249, (Sheriff) 251
2 Will. IV. c. 4 (Embezzlement) 64
2 & 3 Will. IV. c. 68 (Arrest) 253, (Ap-
peal) 541
2 & 3 Will. IV. c. 123 (Punishment)
100, (Libel, forgery) 337
3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 46 (Burgh Act) 256
4 & 5 Will. IV. c. 28 (Marriage) 195
4 & 5 Will. IV. c. 67 (Convict at large)
5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 73 (Bail, forgery)
266, note 3, 267
6 & 7 Will. IV. c. 69 (Plate assaye) 100,
note 3
7 Will. IV. and 1 Vict. c. 5 (Blasphemy)
204, (Sedition) 229
7 Will. IV. and 1 Vict. c. 36 (Post
Office) 70 to 73, 241, 244, 245, 266,
267, 291
7 Will. IV. and 1 Vict. c. 84 (Forgery,
Punishment) 99, 100
7 Will. IV. and 1 Vict. c. 88 (English
Act, piracy) 59
7 Will. IV. and 1 Vict. c 91 (Punish-
ments) 185, 186, 230, 231
1 & 2 Vict. c. 119 (Sheriffs' warrants)
2 & 3 Vict. c. 42 (Prosecution) 275
3 & 4 Vict. c. 59 (Witness) 471, 479
3 & 4 Vict. c. 74 (Oysters) 19, 53, 76
3 & 4 Vict. c. 96 (P. O.) 100, 360, 366
3 & 4 Vict. c. 97 (Railroads) 117
5 & 6 Vict. c. 51 (Assaults on Sovereign)
6 & 7 Vict. c. 34 (Indorsation) 255,
(Liberation) 274
7 & 8 Vict. c. 29 (Night-Poaching) 189,
190, 411
10 & 11 Vict. c. 92 (Mussels) 19, 53, 76
11 Vict. c. 12 (Treason felony) 221, 226,
240, 266, 273
11 & 12 Vict. c. 42 (Arrest) 254, 255,
256
11 & 12 Vict. c. 79 (Procedure) 444, 450,
464, 467, 468
11 & 12 Vict. c. 113 (Local Edinburgh
Police Act) 256
12 & 13 Vict. c. 69 (Indorsation) 254,
255, 256
15 Vict. c. 27 (Evidence) 210, note 6,
212, note 4, 471, 477, 479, 480, 481,
485
16 Vict. c. 20 (Evidence) 480
16 & 17 Vict. c. 80 (Sheriff-Court) 448,
449, 468
16 & 17 Vict. c. 99 (Penal Servitude)
64
16 & 17 Vict. c. 107 (Customs) 234 to
237
16 & 17 Vict. c. 118 (Indorsation) 255
16 & 17 Vict. c. 119 (Betting) 205, 206
17 & 18 Vict. c. 80 (Register of Births,
&c.) 102, 504
17 & 18 Vict. c. 86 (Whipping) 16
17 & 18 Vict. c. 102 (Elections) 171, 237,
238
17 & 18 Vict. c. 104 (Carrying off
wreck, &c.) 60, (Endangering ship)
193, (Jurisdiction) 250, 252, (Indict-
ment) 363
18 & 19 Vict. c. 91 (Jurisdiction) 245,
250, 252
19 & 20 Vict. c. 79 (Prosecution) 276
20 & 21 Vict. c. 3 (Penal servitude) 17
20 & 21 Vict. c. 71 (Insanity) 461, 525,
526
22 Vict. c. 34 (Illegal combination)
177
24 & 25 Vict. c. 96 (Continuous crime)
244
24 & 25 Vict. c. 99 (Coin) 102 et seq.,
244, 245, 253, 274, 386, 387, 390
25 & 26 Vict. c. 97 (Prosecution) 276
25 & 26 Vict. c. 35 (Appeal) 541
27 Vict. c. 30 (Circuits) 249
27 & 28 Vict. c. 47 (Penal servitude) 17
27 & 28 Vict. c. 53 (Summary Proc.)
529, 531
28 Vict. c. 9 (Affirmation) 481
29 & 30 Vict. c. 117 (Whipping) 16
31 & 32 Vict. c. 39 (Juror's affirmation)
469
31 & 32 Vict. c. 45 (Describing stolen
property) 360
31 & 32 Vict. c. 48 (Elections) 239
31 & 32 Vict. c. 95 (Aggravations) 48, 57,
(Quorum of Court) 248, (Circuits) 249,
(Bail-bond) 268, (Citation) 444 et seq.,
(Trial), 464, 468
32 & 33 Vict. c. 87 (Sharpers) 206
32 & 33 Vict. c. 99 (Arrest) 253, (Guilty
Knowledge) 518
33 & 34 Vict. c. 52 (Arrest) 255, 256
33 & 34 Vict. c. 79 (P. O.) 70
33 & 34 Vict. c. 90 (Foreign enlistment)
232, 233, 250
33 & 34 Vict. c. 112 (Aggravations) 16
34 & 35 Vict. c. 55 (Insanity) 526
34 & 35 Vict. c. 110 (Unseaworthy
ship) 193, 415
34 & 35 Vict. c. 112 (Previous convic-
tions) 515
35 & 36 Vict. c. 33 (Ballot Act) 238,
239
35 & 36 Vict. c. 93 (Arrest) 253
36 & 37 Vict. c. 60 (Arrest) 256
37 & 38 Vict. c. 15 (Betting) 206
38 & 39 Vict. c. 86 (Neglect of appren-
tices' health) 172, (Breach of service
to danger of lieges) 175, 177, (Molest-
ing workman), 177, 178
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