The Penal Code of the State of New York

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Weed, Parsons, 1865 - Criminal law - 406 pages

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Contents

Of sections declaring crimes punishable
6
TITLE I
7
Involuntary subjection
10
When not inferred
12
Treason defined
20
Unlawful offers to procure offices for electors
21
Furnishing money for elections except for specified purposes
22
Voting more than once
24
Procuring illegal votes
25
Procuring name to be registered improperly
26
Disturbance of public meeting
27
Summary arrest therefor
28
Misconduct of inspectors
29
Rights of persons lawfully interfering in elections declared
30
TITLE VI
31
Asking or receiving bribes
32
Taking fees for services not rendered
33
Misconduct by jurors arbitrators and referees
39
Making of deposition c when deemed complete
46
Usury
47
Statement of that which one does not know to be true
51
Summary committal of witnesses who have committed perjury
52
Subornation of perjury defined
53
CHAPTER VI
55
Deceiving a witness
56
Bribing witnesses
57
rial officers
58
Officer refusing to receive prisoner into his custody
59
Misconduct in executing search warrant
60
Taking extra judicial oaths
61
Compounding prosecutions
62
Suppressing evidence
63
Mortgage of lands under adverse possession not prohibited
64
CHAPTER VIII
75
SUICIDE
79
Punishment of manslaughter in second degree
81
CHAPTER III
89
CHAPTER V
96
Shooting and assaults with deadly weapons
101
CHAPTER X
109
OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON AND AGAINST PUBLIC DECENCY
112
CHAPTER III
122
Refusing to testify
123
Keeping bawdy house
136
CHAPTER VIII
137
Setting up lotteries
138
Selling lottery tickets
139
Lottery offices
140
Advertising offers to insure lottery tickets
141
CHAPTER IX
142
Punishment
143
Winning or losing upwards of twentyfive dollars
144
Keeping gambling establishments or letting places for gambling purposes
145
Declared a misdemeanor 64
146
Persuading another person to visit gambling places
147
Pawnbroking without a license
148
TITLE XI
149
Counterfeiting trade marks
151
Selling goods which bear counterfeit trade marks
152
Trade marks defined
153
Keeping such bottles with intent to refill or sell them
154
TITLE VIII
155
Unlawful confinement of idiots insane persons c
156
Innkeepers and carriers refusing to receive goods and passengers
157
Bribery and corruption
161
Unequal damage
162
Violations of quarantine laws by master of vessel
163
grounds without leave
164
Obstructing health officer in performance of his duty
165
Apothecary omitting to label drugs or labeling them wrongly
166
Apothecary selling poison without recording the sale
167
Refusing to exhibit record 1
168
Omitting to mark name upon package of hay
169
Disposing of tainted food
170
Negligence in respect to fires
171
Engineer omitting to ring bell or sound whistle when locomotive crosses highway
172
Using net or weir unlawfully in Hudson river
173
What sales must be made by day
184
Delivering false bill of lading to canal collector
185
Drawing off water from canals
186
Seizing military stores belonging to the state
187
TITLE XV
188
Fourth degree defined
192
Burglary and housebreaking
193
Breaking into dwelling houses in the day time burglary in second degree
195
Breaking and entering dwelling when burglary in fourth degree
196
Punishment of burglary
197
Forgery and counterfeiting
198
Making false entries in records of returns
201
What plate may be deemed an imitation of a genuine plate
202
Having possession of other forged instruments
203
Fraudulent destruction of property insured
228
False weights and measures
229
Fraudulent insolvencies by individuals
230
Fraudulent insolvencies by corporations and other frauds in their management
241
its available means
247
Director present at meeting when presumed to have assented to proceedings
248
Frauds in the sale of passage tickets
249
houses
251
Owners pursers c allowed to sell tickets
252
Sale of tickets not filled out as required in last section a felony
253
Frauds relative to documents of title to merchandise
254
tion or storage
256
Injuries to toll houses and turnpike gates 237
257
Malicious injuries to railroads highways bridges and tele graphs
258
Killing maiming or torturing animals
259
Wounding or trapping birds or destroying birds nests in cemeteries
260
Endangering human life by placing gunpowder c near building
261
Injuries to standing crops c
262
Interfering with piers dams c
263
Removing any beacon in New York harbor
264
Disclosing contents of telegraphic dispatch
265
TITLE XVII
266
Attorneys may defend themselves
268
Intimidating laborers or employers
269
Publishing false messages c of federal or state executive
270
Acts not expressly forbidden
271
Vessel defined
272
Sending letter when deemed complete
274
Restriction upon the preceding sections
275
Attempts to conceal death of child how punished after conviction of former attempt
276
Foreign conviction for foreign offense
277
Imprisonment for life
278
Fine may be added to imprisonment
279
Certain terms defined in the senses in which they are used in this Code
280
Vagrants
283
Punishment of robbery in second degree
288
Female convicts
290
Account to be rendered on delivering convicts
291
And how paid
292
Expenses of such removal
293
Manner of such removal
294
Removal of convicts in case of pestilence
295
Lands at Clinton prison
296
Rooms required in county jails
297
Sheriff may remove prisoners in county jails
298
Removal in case of riot c
299
United States convicts to be received into state prisons and county jails
300
Punishment of officers for violation of duty
301
When to enter upon their duties
302
Election of president
303
Visitation of prisons
304
And for the female department of the Sing Sing prison
305
They must furnish abstracts of returns made to them
306
They must cause property of the state to be valued
307
Power of inspectors to administer oaths
308
Duties of individual inspectors
309
Inspectors can hold no other prison office or contract
310
Oath of office
314
Official bond
315
How paid
317
Official reports must be verified
318
Warden must reside at the prison
319
May make contracts
322
Must collect debts due the prison
323
Must provide discharged convicts with certain sums of money
324
Must furnish bibles and hymn books
325
Must keep regular accounts
326
Must render account to the inspectors
327
Must file copies of contracts
328
Must advertise useless property for sale
329
Must instruct the keepers
330
May suspend subordinate officers
331
Must communicate discovery of insanity of offenders to the governor
332
Penalty for neglect to make statement
333
Warden at Clinton may draw arms from state arsenal
334
The matron of the female department of the Sing Sing
335
Must examine the cells of convicts weekly
343
CHAPTER XII
349
The fire company at Auburn
353
When permits may be granted
398
CHAPTER I
i
APPENDIX
iii
ARSON
vi
CHAPTER I
xxvi
APPENDIX
lxix
APPENDIX
xcix
Giving bribes to judges jurors referees c
c
Arson defined 189
cxlvii
Racing upon highways 174
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Page 110 - In all criminal prosecutions for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Page 214 - Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by this code, every offense declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both.
Page 18 - ... shall issue a warrant for the seizure of the forfeited articles, which, when seized, shall be sold on one day's notice, and the proceeds paid to the overseers of the poor for the use of the poor of the town or city.
Page 243 - To divide, withdraw, or in any manner, except as provided by law, pay to the stockholders, or any of them, any part of the capital stock of the corporation; or, 3.
Page 5 - The rule of the common law, that penal statutes are to be strictly construed, has no application to this code. All its provisions are to be construed according to the fair import of their terms, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice.
Page 359 - ... the college of physicians and surgeons in the city of New York...
Page 37 - Legislature of this state who asks, receives, or agrees to receive any bribe upon any understanding that his official vote, opinion, judgment, or action shall be influenced thereby, or shall be given in any particular manner, or upon any particular side of any question or matter upon which he may be required to act in his official capacity...
Page 9 - No act committed by a person while in a state of voluntary intoxication is less criminal by reason of his having been in such condition. But whenever the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive, or intent is a necessary element to constitute any particular species or degree of crime, the jury may take into consideration the fact that the accused was intoxicated at the time, in determining the purpose, motive, or intent with which he committed the act.
Page 113 - Rape is an act of sexual intercourse, accomplished with a female not the wife of the perpetrator, under either of the following circumstances: 1.
Page 57 - Every person who practices any fraud or deceit, or knowingly makes or exhibits any false statement, representation, token, or writing, to any witness or person about to be called as a witness upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry, or investigation whatever, authorized by law, with intent to affect the testimony of such witness, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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