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Special pleas

bar in criminal matters go to the merits of the indictment, and give a reason why the prisoner ought to be

of certain courts where prisoners are to be tried on indictment in cases other than private prosecutions.

Common Law there was no restitution of goods upon an indictment, because it is at the suit of the Crown only;

of destroying game or rabbits are punishable after conviction on indictment by penal servitude up to ten years or imprisonment with

he might be brought into Court, arraigned and tried, without indictment, 4 Bl. Com. 308.

contains or embraces the less; e.g., a person on an indictment for murder may be convicted of manslaughter.)

that any greater felony includes a less felony, a person indicted for murder may be convicted of manslaughter. See Steph. Dig.,

practically a sinecure, but formerly the marshal made abstracts of indictments, and received records for trials, etc. The judge appoints his

principle that every greater felony includes a less, a person indicted for murder may be (and very frequently is) convicted of

malice, used of one who abstains from pleading to an indictment when he is able to do so. See PEINE FORTE