 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1824 - 594 pages
...the peace, such as driving rapidly through the crowded streets of a city. 1 Peters Reports, 390. . It is not necessary that there should be actual force...of the peace of society, are themselves indictable. 5 Binn. 281, Commonwealth -a. Taylor. Therefore, an indictment charging that defendant did unlawfully,... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1829 - 982 pages
..., pe ,°P' e "• KiHtng a cow, the properly ot another: 2. Generally, acts in-en,253-260. jurious to private persons, which tend to excite violent resentment, and thus produce disturbance of the peace, are indictable. § 26 con. Ravara was consul of Genoa, and was indicted for... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1838 - 700 pages
...maliciously, wickedly, and wilfully killing a cow, the property of another. Peuple v. Smith, 5 Cow. 258. 6. Acts injurious to private persons, which tend to excite violent resentment, and thus produce a disturbance of the peace, are indictable Ibid, 1. An indictment against an attorney, &c., upon the... | |
 | Thomas Isaac Wharton - Law reports, digests, etc - 1843 - 870 pages
...notice to remove it and repair the damages was given by the supervisors to the defendant. Ibid. 13. It is not necessary that there should be actual force...of the peace of society, are themselves indictable. Com. v Taylor, 5 Binn. 281. 14. Therefore an indictment charging that the defendant did unlawfully,... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1844 - 732 pages
...indictable at common law. Commonwealth v. Sharpless, 2 S. & R. 91 ; Knowles v. The State, 3 Day's Cas. 103. Acts injurious to private persons which tend to excite...thus produce fighting and disturbance of the peace are indictable ; an indictment charging that the defendant did unlawfully, maliciously, and secretly,... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Criminal procedure - 1849 - 728 pages
...be actual force or violence to constitute an indictable offence. Acts injurious to private person?, which tend to excite violent resentment, and thus...person, is an offence against the public, because it may ctir up the passions of the living and produce acts of revenge. Now what could be more likely to produce... | |
 | Law - 1855 - 736 pages
...more likely to produce it, than wantonly killing, out of mere malice, a useful domestic animal ' " Acts injurious to private persons, which tend to excite violent resentment, and thus produce a disturbance of the peace, have always been held indictable. Thus sending a challenge to fight a duel,... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1853 - 1006 pages
...mischief are constantly sustained. In the caso of The People v. Smith, (5 Cowen, 258,) it was held that acts injurious to private persons, which tend to excite violent resentment and thus produce a disturbance of the peace are indictable ; and that on this ground an indictment lies for maliciously,... | |
 | John H. Colby - Criminal law - 1868 - 480 pages
...degree of moral turpitude dangerous to society, and for their security ought to be punished criminally. Acts injurious to private persons, which tend to excite violent resentment and thus produce a disturbance of the peace, are indictable.5 But great care should be taken to distinguish such cases... | |
 | Abram Warren Thompson - Agricultural laws and legislation - 1876 - 556 pages
...being obliged to rely upon special statutes, malicious mischief is a crime punishable under the law.4 Acts injurious to private persons, which tend to excite violent resentment, and thus produce a disturbance of the peace, have, in America, universally been held indictable ; and it would appear... | |
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It is not necessary that there should be actual force or violence to constitute an indictable offence. Acts injurious to private persons, which tend to excite violent resentment, and thus produce fighting and disturbance of the peace of society, are themselves... 
