A

TREATISE

ON

CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS.

BY SIR WILLIAM OLDNALL RUSSELL, KNT.,

LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF BENGAL.

BY CHARLES SPRENGEL GREAVES, Esq.,

ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S COUNSEL.

Ninth American, from the Fourth London Edition,

WITH THE NOTES AND REFERENCES CONTAINED IN THE FORMER EDITIONS,

AND WITH

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND REFERENCES TO ENGLISH AND AMERICAN DECISIONS,

BY GEORGE SHARSWOOD, LL.D.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.

PHILADELPHIA:

T. & J. W. JOHNSON & CO.,

LAW BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS,

No. 535 CHESTNUT STREET.

1877.