Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by JAMES KAY, JR., AND BROTHER, in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by KAY AND BROTHER, in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: PREFACE. THE materials for the following pages, so far as concerns the law prior to 1874, are to be found, in a large measure, in the seventh edition of my work on Criminal Law. In this volume I have confined myself to the subject of Pleading and Practice. In a fourth volume, to be issued in a few weeks, the topic of Criminal Evidence will be considered. May 1, 1880. F. W. iii |