The Penal Code of the State of New York

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Weed, Parsons, 1865 - 406 pages
 

Contents

Of sections declaring crimes punishable 12 Punishments how determined
6
TITLE I
7
Involuntary subjection
10
Who are accessories Page
13
Penalties how collected
14
Sabbath breaking
16
Undue travel
17
Public traffic
18
Remedy for maliciously serving process
19
TITLE IV
20
Punishment
21
Furnishing money for elections except for specified purposes
22
Voting more than once
24
Procuring illegal votes
25
Procuring name to be registered improperly
26
Disturbance of public meeting
27
Summary arrest therefor
28
Misconduct of inspectors
29
Rights of persons lawfully interfering in elections declared
30
TITLE VI
31
Asking or receiving bribes
32
Taking fees for services not rendered
33
Forfeiture of office
35
Refusing to testify
38
Misconduct by jurors arbitrators and referees
39
19
45
Perjury and subornation of perjury
46
CHAPTER VI
55
What proof is required
57
Neglect to return names of constables
74
Attempts to kill
79
Punishment of manslaughter in second degree
81
ឌ ន ន ន ន 8 8
84
Maiming another person defined
89
CHAPTER V
96
Shooting and assaults with deadly weapons
101
CHAPTER X
109
OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON AND AGAINST PUBLIC DECENCY
112
CHAPTER III
122
Definition and punishment of child stealing
123
Taking extra judicial oaths
129
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
Seizure of gambling implements authorized
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
2488
175
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
Compounding crimes
183
Seizing military stores belonging to the state
187
What constitutes malice
188
Mortgage of lands under adverse possession not prohibited
189
Degrees of arson
191
Burning in day time when arson in second degree
192
CHAPTER II
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
Forging passage tickets
206
Larceny committed out of this state
217
Obtaining property for charitable purposes
226
Fraudulently fitting out and destroying ships and vessels
227
Destroying property insured
228
Violation of duty of directors of moneyed corporations
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
CHAPTER XIV
254
Liability of persons in charge of steam engines
256
Injuries to toll houses and turnpike gates
257
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
Declared a misdemeanor
273
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
CHAPTER I
288
Convicts how to be sentenced
290
Account to be rendered on delivering convicts
291
And how paid
292
89
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
Punishment of officers for violation of duty
301
When to enter upon their duties
302
Election of president
303
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
Inspectors can hold no other prison office or contract
310
Oath of office
314
Official bond
315
How paid
317
Official reports must be verified
318
Warden must reside at the prison
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
335
CHAPTER VI
337
Must keep all the books and accounts
338
Must write for the warden and inspectors
339
May take affidavits
340
General duties of kitchen keeper
342
Kitchen keepers at Auburn and Clinton must act as store keepers
343
Must take charge of hospital
344
CHAPTER XII
349
The fire company at Auburn
353
When permits may be granted
398
APPENDIX
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APPENDIX
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APPENDIX
xcix
Giving bribes to judges jurors referees c
c
246
ciii
Arson defined
cvi
Ownership of the building
cxlvii
May appropriate waters upon the prison lands 334
cxlix

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