ARRANGED ACCORDING to the ANALYSIS OF BLACKSTONE, WITH THE STATUTES BY JOHN CURWOOD, ESQ. BARRISTER AT LAW. LONDON: printed for s. sweet, 3, chANCERY LANE; R. PHENEY, INNER TEMPLE-LANE; A. MAXWELL, 21, and r. stevens and sons, 39, BELL YARD, AND J. CUMMING, DUBLIN. Staatsbibliothek ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR CHARLES ABBOTT, KNT. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND. MY LORD, I FEEL much gratified in dedicating this new Edition of HAWKINS'S PLEAS OF THE CROWN to your Lordship, inasmuch as it affords me the public opportunity of expressing my feelings of deep respect, (in common, I believe, with the Profession at large,) for that profound legal erudition which justly called your Lordship to the eminent station which you now fill. And having long practised in your Lordship's Court, it is with equal gratitude I acknowledge the kindness and urbanity I have ever received at your hands in the performance of my professional duties. That your Lordship may long enjoy the vigour of Health adequate to the discharge of your arduous duties, is my sincere wish; nor will the completion of that wish be solely to your Lord VOL. I. ship's advantage; for that the administration of the Criminal Justice of the Kingdom should long remain under the vigilant inspection of an able and impartial Supreme Criminal Judge, is but the wish of a good Citizen for the security of the lives and liberties of his fellow subjects. I have the honour to be Your Lordship's Most obedient humble Servant, J. CURWOOD. PREFACE. THE presenting a new Edition of MR. SERJEANT HAWKINS'S Work on the PLEAS OF THE CROWN to the Profession, the Editor feels does not require any apology. For although the law has been greatly altered in many respects since the work was first published, yet the great mass of it still remains law to this day; and the work has, down to the present period, retained an undiminished reputation. To render the work more extensively useful, by inserting the variations made in the criminal law by modern statutes, and noting subsequent decisions of the Judges, is what the Editor has attempted. The manner of performing this task may perhaps require an apology:-but he submits his labours to the indulgent consideration of the Profession. There is, however, one liberty that he has taken with the original arrangement of the work, which he feels himself bound to explain his reasons for adopting. In the original arrangement of the learned author, he followed the course before adopted by the more ancient authors on Crown Law, viz. Staundforde, Hale, Pulton and Dalton, of dividing his felonies, into felonies at common law and felonies by statute. At a time when the felonies by statute were comparatively few, they formed but a sort of short appendix to the others, |