The felony need not be a larceny, it may be either murder or rape.
Bills were passed without opposition strengthening the hands of Government, and making it felony to hold intercourse with the mutinous ships.
There were also a large number of other felonies committed in the county, and all this, in addition to the old docket, which shows a large number of felony cases.
There is a number of felony cases in the court, which I think will be ready for trial.
Against the former there is now pending one felony charge, that of false arrest and imprisonment.
I have given the felony docket, over which alone, under the present law, I have jurisdiction, careful study and attention.
Against Humphrey there are three indictments for felony on the docket, each for conspiring, etc.
Bishop Voysey, of Exeter, suggested that if a Sanctuary man committed murder orfelony outside, with the hope of getting back again, the privilege of shelter should be forfeited; but the majority were against this restriction.
Forfeiture for felony was incurred only by those that fled.
All persons except those charged with treason or felony could demand from one of the judges a writ of Habeas Corpus, directing the jailor to bring them before him, so that the validity of their detention might be tested.
All persons charged with treason or felony must be tried at the next sessions after commitment, or else admitted to bail, and if not tried at the second sessions they must be discharged.
They refused to observe a law that made it a felony in their opinion to give a cup of cold water to famishing men and women fleeing from servitude.
The Parliament, looking back on the sanguinary lawlessness of that monarch, did not think the country sufficiently safe from charges of constructive treason and felony without a fresh enactment.
On this confession the judges declared him guilty offelony without benefit of clergy.
As though it had been mere felony in our army to look a French one in the face, he said in more notes than one, dated from two to four P.
It is felony to stop the mail; even the sheriff cannot do that.
He had been induced, he said, to look into the laws against felony because of a petty fraud in his family, which he had found constituted a capital offence, although the sum stolen was only eighteenpence.
Swanson and Mrs. Bainton were convicted of this felony at the King's Bench Bar; but the bailiffs who arrested her on a sham action were acquitted, with which the court was not well pleased.
Sarah Cox prays the king's pardon for Roger Fulwood, who was convicted of felony for forcibly marrying her against her will.
He had the men of Normandy also brought to Gedefort[5], and decimated them; and when the tenth was set apart, hear what felony they committed!
I refuse from any felony towards you; but I have to lead a great chivalry, both soldiers and the men of my fief.
Hearken to the devilry that was now played; to the great treason and felony that were committed!
Divorces may be obtained after residence of six months on the ground of adultery, cruelty, desertion or neglect for one year, habitual drunkenness for the same period, felony or insanity.
Disfranchisement is brought about by conviction for bribery, felony or infamous crime, and an attempt to vote after such conviction is a felony.
Having arranged this, he went to the yard, and found a large body of his tenants armed with such rude weapons as they could procure; for, at this period, it was a felony for a Roman Catholic to have or carry arms at all.
The state of the law at the present time, he assured them, rendered it a felony to marry a Catholic and a Protestant together; and he then left the case in the hands, he said, of an honest Protestant jury.
Footnote 19: An Act to make an Attempt on the Life of a Privy Councillor in the Execution of his Office to be Felony without Benefit of Clergy (9 Ann.
I may well accuse him of felony for the wrong he has done to me.
I were yet unborn, or burnt upon a fire of thorns and my ashes scattered abroad than that I should ever in any wise be false to my lord, or conceive any felony or treachery toward him.
My mother was convicted of felony for a certain petty theft scarce worth naming, viz.
Or, secondly, such as are transported from Newgate and other prisons, after having been found guilty of felony and other crimes punishable with death.
