Laws of the Canal Zone, Isthmus of PanamaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - 310 pages |
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action Ancon appear appointed arrest authority bench warrant Board of Health Buenavista Canal axis Canal Zone cause certificate Chairman Isthmian Canal CHAPTER Circuit Court clerk Collector of Revenues committed conviction copy corporation court or judge crime criminal Cristobal custody defendant delivered deposited deputy discharged duties embezzlement enacted entitled exceeding five execution false fees felony filed Gorgona Government Governor guilty habeas corpus hereby intent to defraud issued Isthmian Canal Commission Isthmus of Panama J. G. WALKER judgment judicial circuit jurisdiction ment misde misdemeanor Municipal Council Municipal District municipal judge Municipal Treasurer Notary Public oath owner party payable monthly penitentiary not exceeding penitentiary not less person who wilfully preceding section prescribed proceedings Prosecuting Attorney punishable by imprisonment purpose Quarantine receive Republic of Panama salary Supreme Court sureties therein thereof thereto thousand dollars tion trial United vessel violation warrant witness writ
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Page 120 - Anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property...
Page 87 - No act committed by a person while in a state of voluntary intoxication is less criminal by reason of his having been in such condition. But whenever the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive, or intent is a necessary element to constitute any particular species or degree of crime, the jury may take into consideration the fact that the accused was intoxicated at the time, in determining the purpose, motive, or intent with which he committed the act.
Page 157 - Words used in this Code in the present tense include the future as well as the present ; words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter ; the singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular ; the word person...
Page 88 - An act or omission which is made punishable in different ways by different provisions of this code may be punished under either of such provisions, but in no case can it be punished under more than one; an acquittal or conviction and sentence under either one bars a prosecution for the same act or omission under any other.
Page 178 - The indictment or information must be set aside by the court in which the defendant is arraigned, upon his motion, in either of the following cases.
Page 216 - Neither a departure from the form or mode prescribed by this code in respect to any pleading or proceeding, nor an error or mistake therein, renders it invalid, unless it has actually prejudiced the defendant, or tended to his prejudice, in respect to a substantial right.
Page 84 - The intent or intention is manifested by the circumstances connected with the offense, and the sound mind and discretion of the accused. All persons are of sound mind who are neither idiots nor lunatics, nor affected with insanity.
Page 32 - I will obey the laws, legal orders and decrees promulgated by its duly constituted authorities; that I impose upon myself this obligation voluntarily, without mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter, so help me God.
Page 174 - ... 1. For a public offense committed or attempted in his presence. "2. When a person arrested has committed a felony, although not in his presence. "3. When a felony has in fact been committed, and he has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it.
Page 115 - Marriages between parents and children, ancestors and descendants of every degree, and between brothers and sisters of the half as well as the whole blood, and between uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews, are incestuous, and void from the beginning, whether the relationship is legitimate or illegitimate.