Precedents of Indictments and Pleas, Adapted to the Use Both of the Courts of the United States and Those of All the Several States

(200) Abduction under New York Rev. stat., vol. 2, p. 553, s. 25.

(201) Abduction of a white person, under Ohio stat., p. 51, sec. 14.

(202) Attempt to carry a white person out of the State, under Ohio stat., p. 51, sec. 14.

(203) Kidnapping. Attempt to carry off a black person, under Ohio stat., p. 51, sec. 15.

CHAPTER VI.

ABORTION.

(204) Production of abortion at common law. First count. By assault and thrusting an instrument in the prosecutor's womb, she being "big, quick, and pregnant."

(205) (206)

Second count, averring prosecutrix to be "big and pregnant."
Third count, merely averring pregnancy in same.

(207) Assault on a woman with quick child, so that the child was brought forth dead. (At common law.)

(208) Against A, the principal, for producing an abortion by using an instrument on the person of a third party, and B an accessary before the fact, under the English statute.

(209) Administering a potion at common law with intent to produce abortion. (210) Producing abortion in New York, 2 R. S., 550, 551, s. 9, 2d ed.

(211) Administering medicine under the Indiana statute, with intent to produce abortion.

(212) Attempt to procure abortion by administering a drug, under Ohio stat.

CHAPTER VII.

ASSAULTS.

(213) Indictment for a common assault.

(214) Assault without battery.

(215) Assault and battery. Massachusetts form.

(216) Information in Connecticut for assault and battery and breach of peace, with commencement and conclusion.

(217) Assault and battery in New York, with commencement and conclusion. (218) Assault and battery in New Jersey, with commencement and conclusion. (219) Assault and battery in Pennsylvania, with commencement and conclusion.

(220) Threatening in a menacing manner, under Ohio stat.

(221) Assault and encouraging a dog to bite.

(222) Assault and tearing prosecutor's hair.

(223) Assaulting the driver of a chaise, and overturning the chaise with the wheel of a cart.

(224) Assault and beating out an eye.

(225) Assault and riding over a person with a horse.

(226) [For Assaults on a pregnant woman, see 204, &c.]

(227) Assault by administering cantharides to prosecutor.

(228) Assault with intent to kill an infirm person, by throwing him on the

ground and beating him.

(229) For throwing corrosive fluid, with intent, etc.

(230) [See for "Assaults with intent," &c., see 242, &c., and also, 1046, &c.] (231) Assault with beating and wounding on the high seas.

(232) Assault on high seas, by binding the prosecutor and forcing an iron bolt

down his throat.

(233) Stabbing with intent to wound, under Ohio stat., p. 49, sec. 6.

(234) Shooting with intent to wound, under Ohio stat., p. 49, sec. 6. (235) Assault on high seas, with dangerous weapon.

(236) Another form for same.

(237) Same in a foreign port, the weapon being a Spanish knife. (238)

(239)

Second count, same as first, charging the instrument differently.
Third count. Assault with intent to kill.

(240) Assault and false imprisonment at common law.

(241) Assault and false imprisonment, with the obtaining of five dollars. (242) Assault with intent to murder at common law.

(243) Another form for same.

(244) Assault with intent to drown.

(245) Assault with intent to murder under the New York Rev. stat.

(246)

Second count. With intent to maim.

(247) Assault with intent to commit a felony generally.

(248) Felonious assault under the Massachusetts statute.

(249) Assault with intent to murder in South Carolina.

(250) Felonious assault with intent to rob, being armed. Rev. sts. of Mass., ch. 125, § 14.

(251) Assault with intent to rob, against two.

(252) Another form for same.

(253) Assault with intent to ravish.

(254) Same, under Rev. sts. of Mass., ch. 125, § 19.

(255) Assault with intent to rape, under Ohio stat., p. 48, sec. 4.

(256) Another form for assault with intent to ravish.

(257) Same against two.

(258) Same against a person of color, in North Carolina, under the statute. (259) Indecent assault.

(260) Indecent assault with intent to have an improper connection.

(261) Indecent assault by stripping.

(262) Assault with intent to rape. Attempting to abuse a female under ten years of age, under Ohio stat., p. 48, sec. 4.

(263) Assault with intent to steal.

BOOK IV.

OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY.

CHAPTER I.

FORGERY, OF ALTERING, COINING, &c.

(264) General frame of indictment at common law.

(265) Forging, at common law, a certificate of an officer of the American army, in 1777, to the effect that he had received certain stores, &c. Second count. Publishing the same.

(266) (267) Forgery. Altering a certificate of an officer of the American army in 1778, to the effect that he had received for the use of the troops at Carlisle certain articles of clothing. Offence laid at common law, the intent being to defraud the United States.

(268) Forgery. Altering and defacing a certain registry and record, &c., under the Pennsylvania act of 1700.

(269) For forging, &c., a bill of exchange, an acceptance thereof, and an

(272)

(273)

(274)

Fourth count, same stated differently.

Fifth count, for forging an indorsement, &c.

Sixth count, for publishing a forged indorsement, &c.

(275) For forgery at common law in ante-dating a mortgage deed with interest, to take place of a prior mortgage.

(276) At common law. Against a member of a dissolved firm for forging the name of the firm to a promissory note.

(277) Forging a letter of attorney at common law.

(278) Forgery of bill of exchange. First count, forging the bill.

(279)

(280)

(281)

(282)

Second count. Uttering the same.

Third count. Forging an acceptance on the same.
Fourth count. Offering, &c., a forged acceptance.
Sixth count. Offering, &c., forged indorsement.

(283) Forging and publishing a receipt for payment of money.

(284)

Second count, for uttering.

(285) Forging a receipt under the North Carolina statute. (286) Forging a fieri facias at common law.

(287)

Second count. Uttering same.

(288) Forgery of a bond at common law.

(289) At common law, by separating from the back of a note an indorsement of part payment.

(290) Forgery in altering a peddler's license, at common law.

(291) Forgery of a note which cannot be particularly described in consequence

of its being destroyed.

(292) Forgery of a note whose tenor cannot be set out on account of its being in defendant's possession.

(293) Forgery of bond when forged instrument is in defendant's possession. (294) Forgery at common law, in passing counterfeit bank notes.

(295) Forgery of the note of a foreign bank as a misdemeanor at common law. (296) Forging a bank note, and uttering the same, under English statute.

Second count. Putting away same.

Third count. Forging promissory note.

Fourth count.

(297)

(298)

(299)

(300)

Fifth count.

(301)

Sixth count.

(302)

(303)

Seventh count.

Putting away same.

Same as first, with intent to defraud J. S.
Putting away same.

Same as second, with intent to defraud J. S.

Eighth count. Putting away same.

(304) Attempt to pass counterfeit bank note, under Ohio stat.

(305) Forging a certificate granted by a collector of the customs. (306) Causing and procuring forgery, &c.

(307) Altering generally.

(308) Altering, &c., averring specially the alterations.

(309) Same in another shape.

(310) Uttering certificate as forged.

(311) Uttering certificate as altered.

(312) Forging a treasury note.

(313) Causing and procuring, &c.

(314) Altering same.

(315) Passing note, &c.

(316) Same in another shape.

(317) Feloniously altering a bank note.

(318) Having in possession forged bank notes without lawful excuse, knowing the same to be forged.

(319) Uttering and passing a counterfeit bank bill, under s. 4, c. 96 of Revised statutes of Vermont.

(320) Uttering forged order, under Ohio stat.

(321) Another form for same.

(322) Uttering a forged note purporting to be issued by a bank in another State, under the Vermont statute.

(323) Having counterfeit bank note in possession under Ohio statute.
(324) Having in possession counterfeit plates, under Ohio statute.
(325) Secretly keeping counterfeiting instruments, under Ohio statute.
(326) Having in possession counterfeit bank notes, under Ohio stat.

(327) Having in possession forged note of United States Bank, under the Vermont statute.

(328) Forgery, &c., in New York. Having in possession a forged note of a corporation.

(330) Forging an instrument for payment of money, under the New York

(332) Having in possession forged notes, &c., with intent to defraud, under the New York statute.

(333) Forgery of a note of a bank incorporated in Pennsylvania, under the Pennsylvania statute.

(335) Forgery of the note of a bank in another State, under the Virginia

statute.

(336) For making, forging, and counterfeiting, &c., American coin, under act of Congress.

Fifth count. Same, specifying party to be defrauded.

(341) Counterfeiting half dollars, under act of Congress.

(342) Passing counterfeit half dollars, with intent to defraud an unknown person, under act of Congress.

(343)

Second count. Same, with intent to defraud R. K.

(344) Having coining tools in possession, at common law.

(345) Making, forging and counterfeiting, &c., foreign coin, quarter dollar, under act of Congress.

(347) Passing, uttering and publishing counterfeit coin of a foreign country, under act of Congress, specifying party to be defrauded.

(348) Debasing the coin of the United States, by an officer employed at the mint, under act of Congress.

(349) Fraudulently diminishing the coin of the United States, under act of Congress.

(350) Uttering a counterfeit half guinea, at common law.

(351) Passing counterfeit coin similar to a French coin at common law. (352) Counterfeiting United States coin, under the Vermont statute.

(353) Having in possession coining instruments, under the Rev. stats. of Massachusetts, c. 127, s. 18.

(354) Having in possession ten counterfeit pieces of coin, with intent to pass the same, under Rev. stats. of Mass., c. 127, s. 15.

(355) Having in custody less than ten counterfeit pieces of coin, under Rev. stats. of Massachusetts, § 16.

(356) Uttering and publishing as true a forged promissory note. Rev. stats. of Mass., ch. 127, § 2.

(357) For forging a promissory note. (358) For counterfeiting a bank bill.

Rev. sts. of Mass., ch. 127, § 1.
Rev. sts. of Mass., ch. 127, § 4.

Rev. sts. of

(359) For having in possession at the same time, ten or more counterfeit bank bills, with intent to utter and pass the same as true. Mass., ch. 127, § 5.

(360) Passing a counterfeit bank bill. Rev. sts. of Mass., ch. 127, § 6. (361) Having in possession a counterfeit bank bill, with intent to pass the same. Rev. sts. of Mass., ch. 127, § 8.

(362) Making a tool to be used in counterfeiting bank notes. Rev. sts. of Mass., ch. 127, § 9.

(363) Having in possession a tool to be used in counterfeiting bank notes, with intent to use the same. Rev. sts. of Mass., ch. 127, § 9.

(364) Counterfeiting current coin. Rev. Sts. of Mass., ch. 127, § 15.

(365) Uttering and passing counterfeit coin. Rev. sts. of Mass., ch. 127, § 16. (366) Coining, &c., under the North Carolina statute.

CHAPTER II.

BURGLARY.

(367) General frame of indictment for burglary and larceny, at common law. (368) Burglary and larceny at common law. Another form.

(369)

Second count. Receiving stolen goods.

(370) Burglary at common law with no larceny.

(371) Breaking into dwelling-house, not being armed, with intent to commit larceny, under Massachusetts statute.

(372) General frame of indictment in New York.

(373) Burglary, by breaking out of a house.

(374) Burglary and larceny and assault, with intent to murder.

(375) Burglary, with violence.

(376) Burglary and rape.

(377) Burglary, with intent to ravish: with a count for burglary with violence,

under st. 7 Wm. 4 and 1 Vic., ch. 86, § 2.

(378) Burglary and larceny, at common law, by breaking into a parish church. (379) Burglary and larceny. Breaking and entering a store and stealing goods, under Ohio stat.

(380) Burglary and larceny. Breaking and entering a meeting-house, and stealing a communion cup and chalice, under Ohio statute.

(381) Burglary. Breaking and entering a storehouse with intent to steal, under Ohio statute.

(382) Burglary. Breaking and entering a shop with intent to steal, under Ohio statute.

(383) Burglary. Breaking and entering a dwelling-house with intent to steal, under Ohio statute.

(384) Breaking and entering a mansion-house in the day time, and attempting to commit personal violence, under Ohio statute.

(385) Breaking and entering a mansion-house in the night season, and com-

mitting personal violence, under Ohio statute.

(386) Against a person for attempting to break and enter a dwelling-house at

night, at common law.

(387) Breaking a storehouse with intent to enter and steal, at common law.

(388) Being found by night armed, with intent to break into a dwelling-house,

and commit a felony therein.