OF

LEADING CASES

IN

CRIMINAL LAW:

WITH NOTES.

BY

EDMUND HASTINGS BENNETT,

AND

FRANKLIN FISKE HEARD.

Publica judicia neque per actiones ordinantur, neque omnino quidquam simile habent cum ceteris judiciis
de quibus locuti sumus, magnaque diversitas est eorum et instituendis et in exercendis. - JUSTINIANI
INSTITUTIONES, De Publicis Judiciis.

VOLUME II.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
EDMUND H. BENNETT, AND F. F. HEARD,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

TO THE

HONORABLE JOHN HENRY CLIFFORD, LL. D.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL

OF THE

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,

THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY THE AUTHORS.