The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-12-28
SOME MISDEMEANoRS.

person 10 administer or attempt to
administer to any other person, or to
cause to be taken, Or to attempt to cause
to be taken, by any other person, any
poison, chloroform, soporiic, or other
dcleterious thing or for him to commit
an assault OH any other person, with in
tent in any Of these cases, to commit the
crime of murder, or the crime Of rape, or
the crime Of robbery or larceny, or with
the intent to maim disfgure or disable
such other person, or to do some other
gricvous bodily harm to such other per-
sor, or with intent to resist or prevent
the lawful apprehension or detainer of
any person, although no bodily injury
may be effected for any servant to
steal any chattcl, money or valuable sc.
curity below the value Of ten dollars,
belonging to,or in the possession orpow-
er of ms master or employer or being in
any dwelling house for any person un /.
lawfully and maliciously to burn or de.
stroy, or cause ed TO be burned or dc.
stroyed, any agricultural product, al.
though property to the value of ten dol
lars may not thereby be desrroved for
a servant to assault his master or en-.
ploycr, or any member Of his masters or
employers family, or any person an.
thorized to direct and control them.
SEC. VI. Al simple larccnes and
thefts. where the value Of the goods and
chattels, moneys and valuable securities
is stolen, is less than ten dollars, shall be
misdemcanors. punishable by whipping,
corporal punishment, hard labor, and
the necessary Imprisonment, at the dis
crction OF the Court
SEC. VII. OF chattels moneys and
valuable securities, which were deliver.
ed by the owners thereof to any othcr
person to be kept, carried or otherwise
dealt with for the owner, or which were
: III the custody Of any other person, nm.
der any trust rcnosrd in such other bv
the owner. the felonious carving away
by such other person, shall be larce.
ny.
SIC. VIII If any clerk, servant; or
other employee, shall receive or take in.
to his possession any chattel money or
valuable security, for or in the name of,
or on the account of his employer or
master, and shall frandulcntly embcZzlc
the same, or any part thereof. such clerk,
servant or employee shall, upon convic.
tion thereof be punished in the same
way as ifhe had been convicted Of lav.
ing felonloltsly stolen from the emplpver
or master, c!lattels, moneys or valua BILE
securities OF the same amount lin value.
In any such case, except when the of.
fence shall relate to a chattel, it shall be
sufficient to allcge the embezzlement to
be of money, without specifying any
particular coin or valuable security, and
to prove the embezslement Of any
amount OF moneys or paluab e. securities
III in any such case, upon the trial the
proof shall show a larceny, the Jury
shall be at liberty to return verdict
that the offender is not geily Of embcz
element. but is guilty ofsimple larceny,
ior OF larceny as servant, as the case
may be and upon the trial Of a clerk,
servant or employee for larceny if the
proof shall show an embezslement, the
Jury shall ba at liberty TO return vcr
dict that the offender is not guilty of
larceny, but is guilty OF embezz!ement,
and thereupon, in either case, the effect
shall be the same as IF the offence
whereof The oficnderis found guilty had
been specially alleged the amounttin
value being taken to be that which is al.
legged, unless the. verdict shall. fix a. less
tjeInorpt. Ne person tried. for embegzle.
saasnssQr larceny as aforesaid, shsll be-
Eliablete be afterwards 5pfosecuted for
larceny Or enSezzlemtpt upoh3the same
facts
II SEC. TX, 1t any person shall incite,
hire or council a servant to commit 4
larceny or rembezz!ed,ent Of any chatteIs,
money valuable security Of his mas,
ter, sncl, offender shall be Guilty OF ,an
aGencc AMI accoraingto the event, may,