OF

INDICTMENTS AND PLEAS,

ADAPTED TO THE USE BOTH OF THE

COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES

AND THOSE OF ALL THE

SEVERAL STATES;

TOGETHER WITH NOTES ON

CRIMINAL PLEADING AND PRACTICE,

EMBRACING THE

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORITIES GENERALLY.

BY

FRANCIS WHARTON, LL.D.,

AUTHOR OF Treatises on CRIMINAL LAW; ON EVIDENCE; ON NEGLIGENCE;
AND ON MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE,

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1881.

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PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION.

In the present edition several superfluous forms have been thrown out; a number of new forms have been introduced; and the notes have been carefully revised and largely in

creased.

NARRAGANSETT Pier, R. I.,

August 3, 1881.

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