A Practical Treatise On Misdemeanors

Author : John H. Colby
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334608445
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book A Practical Treatise Upon the Criminal Law and Practice of the State of New York, Vol. 1 of 2 written by John H. Colby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Practical Treatise Upon the Criminal Law and Practice of the State of New York, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Appendix of Precedents, Designed for the Use of the Legal Profession, and All Public Officers Engaged in the Administration of Criminal Law, and as a Text-Book for Students The author, during his professional practice, and more especially while holding the ofice of district-attorney in one of the counties of this State, has often felt the necessity of a compact, reliable hand-book upon the criminal practice. The work of Mr. Barbour, which was most in use, was more expressly designed for the guide of justices of the peace, and instruction in such criminal proceedings as. Were carried on before them and in their courts, and was not expected to be complete in its details of the practice in courts of record upon the trial of indictments. Mr. Archbold's Criminal Practice and Pleading was originally written and designed to illustrate the practice in the courts of England, and, by reason of various statutory enactments in this State differing from the practice of the common law and the statutes of England, it did not meet the wants of the profession. Again, the works of Mr. Wharton upon the criminal law, and the notes by Mr. Waterman subjoined to the text of archbold, although the result of extended labor and great patience and care in their preparation, were too cumbersome for general use, and embraced a variety of statutory enactments by the Legislatures of other States, which had no application to the practice in this State, besides containing many decisions made by the courts of other States, which either interpreted such special enactments, or were repugnant to the decisions which had been made by our courts upon various questions arising upon the criminal practice in this State. 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.