Download or read book A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States, Vol. 1 written by Francis Wharton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States, Vol. 1: Principles, Pleading, and Evidence Tee third volume of this edition is substantially new, and comprehends an independent treatise on Criminal Practice. The chapters on Crimes, which in prior editions were spread over the second and third volumes, are now consolidated in the second. Each topic has been rear ranged and in great measure rewritten. To allow room for six hundred pages of additional material, which I have incorporated in the text, as well as for the reason that the great increase of the penal statutes of our several states makes any attempt at their accurate codification incompatible with the limits of such a. Work as the pres ent, the statutes given in former editions have been dropped, except so far as is necessary for the elucida tion of the text. The treatise now covers the whole field of Criminal Jurisprudence. To enable this exten sion to be more readily mastered, I have rearranged the topics, devoting the first volume to Principles, Pleading, and Evidence the second to Crimes; and the third to Practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.