to extend to guns, traps, &c. set in dwelling-houses,
from sunset to sunrise, 230.
Stage coaches, &c. accidents by, 44, (1 G. 4, c. 4;) drivers
of stage coaches occasioning accidents by furious
driving or other misconduct, punishment, 45; indict-
ment, 45; evidence, 46; not to extend to hackney
coaches, 45.
Statutes rule for the interpretation of all criminal statutes,
267, (7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28.),
Stealing-See" Larceny."
Steam engines-See "Nuisance."
Stock, public: stealing any tally, order or other security
entitling to a share in any public stock or deposit in
a savings' bank, 287-See " Larceny."
Stolen property, any person to whom it is offered, may seize
the party offering it, 444.
Subsequent felony being convicted of felony, and after-
wards committing another, punishment, 263, (7 & 8
Geo. 4, c. 28;) form of the indictment, 264, 265;
evidence, 264, 265.
Suicide-See "Felo de se."
Summary proceedings-See "Conviction". "Justices.
Summary proceedings under 7 & 8 G. 4, c. 29:
limitation of, 445; competency of witnesses, 445;
offender may be summoned or apprehended, 446;
form of the summons, 446; of the warrant, 447;
application of penalties, 447; commitment in default
of payment, 448; form thereof, 449, 450; in what
cases the justices may discharge offenders, upon their
making satisfaction, 450; or the king may pardon
them, 451; conviction to be a bar to any other pro-
ceeding for the same cause, 451; form of conviction,
451, 452; appeal, 453; notice of appeal, 454; re-
cognizance, 454; conviction not to be quashed for
defect in form, 455; nor removed by certiorari, 455;
commitment not void for defect, if there be a valid
conviction, 455; convictions to be returned to ses-
sions, 456; how far evidence in future cases, 456.
Tally-See" Stock."
Tenants, larceny by, 406 & n.
Tenants in common: in indictments for offences committed
on the property in common, the property may be
laid in any one tenant" and others," 206. 283, 284.
Testamentary paper-See "Will."
Threat, obtaining money by, in what cases robbery, 291,
293, 294; demanding money, with menaces or force,
with intent to steal, punishment, 290; indictment,
evidence, 298.
297;
Threatening letters: sending or delivering letters or writings
threatening to kill or murder, or to burn or destroy,
punishment, 101–105 & n. (4 G. 4, c. 54, s. 3);
indictment, 105; evidence, 105; sending letters con-
taining menacing demands of money, &c., punish-
ment, 298, (7 & 8 G. 4, c. 29;) indictment, 300;
evidence, 300; sending letters threatening to accuse
a man of a crime, with intent to extort money from
him, punishment, 298; indictment, 302; evidence,
Threatening to accuse a party of an infamous crime, in order
to extort money, punishment, 298, 299; indictment,
301; evidence, 302.
Transportation (5 G. 4, c. 84): All things relating to
transportation, &c. of offenders, to be hereafter ac-
cording to this act, 137, 138; offenders adjudged for
transportation, to be transported under this act, 138;
where his majesty extends mercy to an offender ca-
pitally convicted, court to order him to be transported,
139; his majesty may appoint places of transporta-
tion, 140; secretary of state to authorize persons to
make contracts for the transportation of offenders, &c.
140; sheriffs or gaolers, on receiving orders for re-
moval of offenders for transportation, to deliver them
over to the contractor, if free from distemper, 141;
persons contracting to transport offenders, to give se-
curity, 142; transports misbehaving on the voyage,
how punished, 142; when offenders are transported
in king's ships, no contract or security required, 143;
governor of the colony, &c. to have a property in the
service of transports, and may assign them to others,
143, 144; this act not to affect the king's preroga-
tive of mercy, 144; his majesty to appoint places of
confinement in England for offenders ordered to be
transported, 144, 145; superintendant and overseers,
&c. of such places of confinement, to be appointed,
146; their duties, 146, 147; upon removal to such
places, offenders to be cleansed, clothed, &c. 148;
his majesty may direct convicts to be employed in
any part of his dominions out of England, under the
management of the superintendant and overseer, 148;
superintendant to make returns of prisoners to the
secretary of state, 149; power and duties of super-
intendant and overseer, 150; superintendant may act
as a justice of peace, 151; convicts adjudged by
courts out of the united kingdom to be transported,
and convicts there pardoned on condition of trans-
portation, may, when brought to England, be impri-
soned, &c. until transported, 151; convicts may be
kept to hard labour, and may be removed to house of
correction, 152; time of imprisonment to be deemed
part of term of transportation, 153; offenders may be
carried through any county, to the seaport, 153; ex-
penses of removal to be paid by the county where
conviction took place, 153; convict found at large,
before the expiration of his sentence, punishment,
152, 153, n.; persons rescuing convicts, punishment,
153; reward (£20) for prosecuting convict at large,
153; indictment against a convict for being at large
before his term of transportation is expired, 153; evi-
dence, 156; indictment for aiding the escape of a
prisoner ordered for transportation, 156; evidence,
157; form of indictment in either case, 157; certi-
ficate by clerk of court, of the conviction and sen-
tence, sufficient evidence, 157, 158; transported fe-
lons, how far protected in the enjoyment of property
acquired after conviction, 159; actions against per-
sons for any thing done in pursuance of this act, ge-
neral issue, 160; limitation of action, 161.
Trees stealing trees, saplings, shrubs or underwood grow-
ing in parks or pleasure grounds, &c. punishment,
382; indictment, 383; evidence, 383; stealing them
whilst growing elsewhere, punishment, 383; indict-
ment, 383; evidence, 384; cutting or damaging
them whilst growing in parks or pleasure grounds,
&c., with intent to steal them, punishment, 382; in-
dictment, 384; evidence, 384, 385; cutting or da-
maging them with like intent, whilst growing else-
where, punishment, 385; indictment, 385; evidence,
385; stealing trees, saplings, shrubs or underwood,
of any value above 1s., punishment, 386; conviction,
387; cutting or damaging them with intent to steal,
punishment, 386; conviction, 387; conviction for a
second offence, 388; indictment for a third offence,
389; evidence, 390.
Traversing indictments: persons in custody or holden to
bail for misdemeanors, twenty days before the assizes
or sessions, shall plead and try at those assizes or
sessions, 8, (60 G. 3, & 1 G. 4, c. 4;) otherwise they
shall have until the assizes or sessions next after the
expiration of twenty days from the time they are com-
mitted or holden to bail, or have notice of the indict-
inent, to plead and try, 9; not to prevent indictments
being removed from a city or town to an adjoining
county, to be tried, 10; the court may allow a fur-
ther time to plead and try, 11; act not to extend to
prosecutions, &c. or repair of bridges or high-
ways, 12.
Treason, high, in what case a copy of panel to be delivered
to the party indicted, 182.
Trial: in prosecutions by the attorney-general, if not brought
to trial within twelve months, the court may allow the
defendant to bring them on, 11.
Turnpike, property under turnpike trusts, may be described
in indictments as the property of the trustees, 208.
284, 285.
Unlawful assemblies: assemblies or meetings for the pur-
pose of training to arms, prohibited, 1, (60 G. 3 &
1 G. 4, c. 1;) persons training or drilling others,
transportation or imprisonment, 2; attending to be
trained or drilled, fine and imprisonment, 2; justices
or constables may disperse such meetings, and arrest
persons present at them, 2; sheriffs depute &c. in
Scotland to have the same powers as magistrates in
England, 3; act not to prevent offenders from being
prosecuted under any former law, 3; actions brought
for any thing done under this act, limitation, venue,
&c. 4, 5; prosecutions to be commenced within six
months, 5.
Unstamped publications, 21-41. See " Newspapers."
Vagrants provisions heretofore made relative to vagrants,
repealed, 118, (5 G. 4, c. 83 ;) provisions in 32 G.
3, c. 45, giving power to pass convicts on discharge
from prison, repealed, 119. Refusing or neglecting to
maintain his family; returning to a parish after re-
moval; pedlar trading without licence; prostitutes
wandering in the streets, or behaving in a riotous
or indecent manner; beggars: to be deemed idle and
disorderly persons, 120; how punished, 120, 121.
Committing any of the above offences after a former
conviction; fortune-tellers; persons wandering about,
lodging in tents, outhouses, &c. and not giving a
good account of themselves; exposing to view indecent
prints, &c.; indecently exposing his person, with
intent to insult a female; persons wandering abroad,
and by exposure of wounds, &c. endeavouring to ob-
tain alms; collecting alms under fraudulent pre-
tences; running away and leaving wife or children
chargeable; playing or betting at any game of chance
in the street; having in possession any picklock key,
crow or other implement with intent to break into
any house; or being armed with intent to commit a
felony; being found in any house, &c. for an un-
lawful purpose; suspected persons or reputed thieves,
frequenting rivers, wharfs, warehouses, &c. with in-
tent to commit felony; persons apprehended as idle
and disorderly, and resisting apprehension, to be
deemed a rogue and vagabond, 122, 123; how pun-
ished, 123. Persons breaking out of prison, before
the expiration of their imprisonment under this act;
being rogue or vagabond after former conviction;
rogue or vagabond resisting constable apprehending
him to be deemed incorrigible rogues, 123, 124;
how punished, 124. Any person may apprehend
offenders, 124; constables refusing to take offender
into custody, to be deemed a neglect of duty, 124;
justice may issue warrant to apprehend offenders,
125; form of information, 125; warrant, 126; va-
grants may be searched, and trunks, bundles, &c.
inspected, 126; effects found upon them to be sold,
and applied towards the expense of apprehending
and maintaining them, 127; upon notice of appeal,
justices may bind the witnesses by recognizance to
appear, &c. at the sessions, 127; power of sessions
to order payment of expenses to prosecutors and wit-
nesses, 128; incorrigible rogues may be ordered by
the sessions to be detained and kept to hard labour
and whipped, 129; officers neglecting their duty, or
persons hindering officers in the execution of their
duty, penalty, 129; on conviction of officers, jus-
tices may order payment of the prosecutor's expenses,
130; lodging-houses, &c. suspected to conceal va-
grants, may be searched, and suspected persons brought
before a justice, 131; appeal, 132; persons dis-
charged from prison, to whom justices may grant
certificates to receive alms in their route, loitering on
their way or deviating from it, to be deemed rogues
and vagabonds, 133; justices not to grant certificates,
enabling persons to ask relief, except to soldiers and
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