WITH FORMS AND PRECEDENTS FOR INDICTMENTS, INFORM- AND DIGEST OF DECISIONS BY MOSES F. WILSON SECOND EDITION, REVISED CINCINNATI ROBERT CLARKE & CO 1881 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. In this edition such alterations have been made as were necessary to make the book conform to the changes made in the criminal code by the Revised Statutes, which alterations involved the re-writing of a large part of the work and the re-setting of the whole. In the order and arrangement of contents, and the numbering of sections, I have followed the Revised Statutes. The decisions made since the issuing of the first edition have been digested under the appropriate heads. The forms of the first edition have been carefully revised and a number of new ones added. In the preparation of forms I have taken advantage of all criticisms and suggestions; I am under special obligation to Florien Giauque, Esq., for the use of the valuable series prepared by him for Messrs. Robert Clarke & Co. CINCINNATI, Dec. 1, 1880. M. F. WILSON. (iii) PREFACE. THE object of this book is to give an edition of the Criminal or Penal Code of Ohio, adopted by the General Assembly, May 5, 1877, which will be useful to those who administer or practice criminal law in this State. This new Code varies so frequently in the definition of crimes and of the methods of criminal procedure, from the phraseology of the statutes codified and repealed, that the publishers deemed the withdrawal of Warren's Criminal Law and the preparation of an entirely new work necessary. In the order and arrangement of contents I have followed that of the Code. The precedents given are very full, and it is believed they will embrace a majority of the cases that will arise, although they may not cover every possible case. When an exception arises, it is hoped that the forms presented will suggest the form required. Whatever statements the book contains as to the construction of the Code, consist of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the State as to crimes or procedure in criminal cases, arranged under the sections of the Code to which they relate. Outside of those decisions resort must be had to the treatises on criminal law. I' have given no opinions of my own. Mr. Warren's work, with the permission of the publishers, has been freely used and consulted. I am under special obligations also to Mr. E. N. Wild, for the use of his Journal Entries. CINCINNATI, January 18, 1878. M. F. WILSON. II. Offenses against the Sovereignty of the State............ V. Offenses against Public Peace........ VI. Offenses against Public Justice........ VII. Offenses against Public Health...... VIII. Offenses against Public Policy........ IX. Offenses against Chastity and Morality........ X. Offenses against the Right of Suffrage....... (v) |
