As a rule, in the old English law, offenses capitally punishable were felonies; all other indictable offenses were misdemeanors.
In the United States it is indictablein some States at common law, in others only by statute.
In England and in most of the United States embezzlement is made indictable by statute.
A judge laid down, some years ago, that to say anything against the Christian religion was an indictable offence.
Any man who treats with contempt the Christian religion, is guilty of an indictable misdemeanour.
The boycott is a conspiracy to injure another person, and as such indictable at common law.
But in its incidents, such as violence, intimidation, and in some cases injury to the public welfare, it often becomes an indictable offense.
Can anyone go through all these passages and have any doubt that the Bible--supposing it to be unprotected by statute--is indictable as an obscene book under the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice?
I do not urge that the Bible should be prosecuted: I do urge that it is indictable under the present ruling; and I plead, further, that this very fact shows how the present ruling is against the public weal.
Surely if any book be indictable for obscenity, the Bible should be the first to be prosecuted.
It is therefore, Sir, an indictable offence, at this moment, in South Carolina, for any person to be concerned in collecting revenue under the laws of the United States.
To this appeal Jefferson replied by sending Genet a copy of the opinion of the attorney-general of the United States, who decided that the prisoners had acted in violation of treaties, and were guilty of an indictable offence.
This act also extends to indictable offences under 24 & 25 Vict.
An officer may break open doors in order to execute a warrant in cases of treason, felony or indictable offences, provided that, on demand, admittance cannot otherwise be obtained.
The only exception is as to indictable crimes, such as treason, felony and breach of the peace.
Such action could be taken only for "an indictable offense.
It is indictable nowhere for him to omit to do his duty, to refuse to hold a court.
He said this was a serious and important charge of publishing inflammatory and seditious libels, which was always an indictable offence.
I thought the court had decided this point in a former opinion in this case, where they said they could not be evidence if they were of themselves indictable writings.
I think I may boldly assert, then, that the merely having in possession a libel printed and published in a foreign country only, is not an indictable offence here, and publication of the same libel here.
Here was an offense against decency and sanitary regulations, indictable at common law.
An offence is a trivial breach of the criminal law, and is punishable on summary conviction before a magistrate or justices only, while the more serious crimes (indictable offences) must be tried before a jury.
It is a felony to administer, or cause to be administered, any poison or other destructive thing with intent to murder, or with the intention of stupefying or overpowering an individual so that any indictable offence may be committed.
If I am right in this, I am persuaded your Lordships will be of opinion, that this is not an indictable offence.
It is still anindictable offence, punishable with fine and imprisonment, or both [424].
The indictable offenses committed by the young have increased markedly during the war, and surely we are responsible for this lapse of children into crime.
In the opinion of the majority, it was the necessity of the situation that the power of impeachment should extend to acts and offences that were not indictableby statute nor at common law.
It is to be observed that in the eleventh article there is no allegation that the President had committed an offence that was indictable under any statute of the United States or that would have been indictable at common law.
Eldridge, maintained the doctrine that a civil officer under the Constitution of the United States was not liable to impeachment except for the commission of an indictable offence.
Many offences which are at common law or by statute felonies, or misdemeanours indictable at common law or by statute, may under certain conditions be tried by a court of summary jurisdiction (q.
It is an indictable misdemeanour under the Larceny Act of 1861.
