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Garrotting, the criminal choking of a person. by the Garrotters Act, 1863 (26 & 27Vict. c. 44), the crimes of robbery with violence, which is punishable by penal servitude under s. 23 of the Larceny Act, 1916, and choking, etc., with intent to commit any indictable offence, which is similarly punishable under s. 21 of the offences against the Person Act, 1861, are each of them punishable also by whipping, if the offender be a male.