The Penal Code of the State of New York

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Weed, Parsons, 1865 - 406 pages
 

Contents

Sabbath breaking
16
Undue travel
17
Public traffic
18
Remedy for maliciously serving process
19
TITLE IV
20
Punishment
21
TITLE VI
31
TITLE VIII
39
CHAPTER IV
45
Perjury and subornation of perjury
46
Statement of that which one does not know to be true
51
Summary committal of witnesses who have committed perjury
52
Subornation of perjury defined
53
CHAPTER VI
55
Deceiving a witness
56
Bribing witnesses
57
rial officers
58
Officer refusing to receive prisoner into his custody
59
Misconduct in executing search warrant
60
Taking extra judicial oaths
61
Compounding prosecutions
62
Suppressing evidence
63
Mortgage of lands under adverse possession not prohibited
64
TITLE IX
79
Aiding suicide
80
CHAPTER II
81
What proof of death is required
82
Design to effect death when inferred
83
Act eminently dangerous and evincing a depraved mind
84
Manslaughter in first degree defined
85
Punishment of manslaughter in first degree
86
Liability of persons in charge of steam engines
87
CHAPTER III
89
CHAPTER V
96
EMBEZZLEMENT Page
99
Shooting and assaults with deadly weapons
101
CHAPTER X
109
OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON AND AGAINST PUBLIC DECENCY AND GOOD MORALS Page I Rape abduction carnal abuse of children ...
112
When physical ability must be proved
116
Rape in the first degree defined
117
Taking a woman with intent to compel her to marry or to be defiled
118
Seduction under promise of marriage
120
Subsequent marriage a defense
121
CHAPTER III
122
Definition and punishment of child stealing
123
Keeping bawdy house
136
CHAPTER VIII
137
Setting up lotteries
138
Selling lottery tickets
139
Lottery offices
140
Advertising offers to insure lottery tickets
141
CHAPTER IX
142
Witness privilege
144
Keeping gambling establishments or letting places for gambling purposes
145
Declared a misdemeanor 61
146
Persuading another person to visit gambling places
147
Pawnbroking without a license
148
TITLE XI
149
Counterfeiting trade marks
151
Selling goods which bear counterfeit trade marks
152
Goods defined
153
Keeping such bottles with intent to refill or sell them
154
Defacing marks upon wrecked property
155
Unlawful confinement of idiots insane persons c
156
Innkeepers and carriers refusing to receive goods and passengers
157
Unequal damage
162
Violations of quarantine laws by master of vessel
163
grounds without leave
164
Obstructing health officer in performance of his duty
165
Apothecary omitting to label drugs or labeling them wrongly
166
Apothecary selling poison without recording the sale
167
Refusing to exhibit record
168
Omitting to mark name upon package of hay
169
Disposing of tainted food
170
Negligence in respect to fires
171
Engineer omitting to ring bell or sound whistle when locomotive crosses highway
172
Using net or weir unlawfully in Hudson river
173
Racing upon highways
174
Rout defined
176
Remaining present at place of riot c after warning to disperse
177
Prize fights
178
Special duty of peace officers with respect to prize fights
179
Discharging firearms in public places
180
Obstructing officer in collecting revenue
182
Auctioneer accepting appointment as auctioneer in another state or selling in another state
183
What sales must be made by day
184
Delivering false bill of lading to canal collector
185
Drawing off water from canals
186
Seizing military stores belonging to the state
187
TITLE XV
188
Degrees of arson
191
Burning in day time when arson in second degree
192
Burglary and housebreaking
193
Breaking into dwelling houses in the day time burglary in second degree
195
Breaking and entering dwelling when burglary in fourth degree
196
Punishment of burglary
197
Forgery and counterfeiting
198
Making false entries in records of returns
201
What plate may be deemed an imitation of a genuine plate
202
Having possession of other forged instruments
203
Stealing wrecked goods c
216
Embezzlement
217
Extortion
219
But actual restoration is a ground for mitigation of punishment
220
False personation and cheats
222
Using false check or order for payment of money
226
Fraudulently fitting out and destroying ships and vessels
227
Fraudulent destruction of property insured
228
False weights and measures
229
Fraudulent insolvencies by individuals
230
Fraudulent insolvencies by corporations and other frauds in their management
241
its available means
247
Director present at meeting when presumed to have assented to proceedings
248
Frauds in the sale of passage tickets
249
houses
251
Owners pursers c allowed to sell tickets
252
Sale of tickets not filled out as required in last section a felony
253
Frauds relative to documents of title to merchandise
254
tion or storage
256
Injuries to toll houses and turnpike gates
257
Malicious injuries to railroads highways bridges and tele graphs
258
Wounding or trapping birds or destroying birds nests in cemeteries
260
Endangering human life by placing gunpowder c near building
261
Injuries to standing crops c
262
Interfering with piers dams c
263
Removing any beacon in New York harbor
264
Disclosing contents of telegraphic dispatch
265
TITLE XVII
266
Selling liquor upon Sundays
267
Attorneys forbidden to defend criminal prosecutions carried on by their partners or formerly by themselves
268
Intimidating laborers or employers
269
Publishing false messages c of federal or state executive
270
Acts not expressly forbidden
271
Malice and maliciously defined
272
Sending letter when deemed complete
274
Restriction upon the preceding sections
275
Attempts to conceal death of child how punished after conviction of former attempt
276
Foreign conviction for foreign offense
277
Imprisonment for life
278
Fine may be added to imprisonment
279
Certain terms defined in the senses in which they are used in this Code
280
Writing defined
281
Property defined
282
Civil remedies preserved
283
CHAPTER I
288
Female convicts
290
Account to be rendered on delivering convicts
291
And how paid
292
Expenses of such removal
293
Manner of such removal
294
Removal of convicts in case of pestilence
295
Lands at Clinton prison
296
Rooms required in county jails
297
Sheriff may remove prisoners in county jails
298
Removal in case of riot c
299
United States convicts to be received into state prisons and county jails
300
Inspectors of state prisons
301
When to enter upon their duties
302
Election of president
303
26 Visitation of prisons
304
And for the female department of the Sing Sing prison
305
They must furnish abstracts of returns made to them
306
They must cause property of the state to be valued
307
Power of inspectors to administer oaths
308
Duties of individual inspectors
309
General provisions relative to officers of the various state prisons
310
Oath of office
314
Official bond
315
How paid
317
Official reports must be verified
318
The wardens
319
May make contracts
322
Must collect debts due the prison
323
Must provide discharged convicts with certain sums of money
324
Must furnish bibles and hymn books
325
Must keep regular accounts
326
Must render account to the inspectors
327
Must file copies of contracts
328
Must advertise useless property for sale
329
Must instruct the keepers
330
May suspend subordinate officers
331
Must communicate discovery of insanity of offenders to the governor
332
Penalty for neglect to make statement
333
Warden at Clinton may draw arms from state arsenal
334
The matron of the female department of the Sing Sing prison and assistant matrons
335
The clerks
337
The keepers
340
The physicians
343
The chaplains
345
The instructors and instructress
347
The guards
348
The military companies at Sing Sing and Auburn
349
The fire company at Auburn
353
The custody conduct and discipline of convicts
354
The employment of convicts
360
Commutation of sentences
371
ARSON
vi
Giving bribes to judges jurors referees c
c
Arson defined 189
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