The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-01-04

part thereof, for any civil or political Of
fee; confinement in tread-mill or stocks,
solitary confinement, hard labor, corporal
punishment; imprisonment, not less than
three months nor more than ten years ;
fine not less than one hundred dollars, nor
more than five thousand dollars. But no
punishment more degrading than impris-
onmcnt shall be imposed On q white per-
son for crime not infamous.
SOME MIsDEMEANoRs.
Sec. " The offences specified in this
fifth section, shall be aggravated misde-
meanors, to wit: For any person to ad-
minister OF attempt to administer to any
other person, OF to cause to be taken, or
to attempt to cause to be taken, by any
other person, any poison, chloroform, So
poric, or other deleterious thing; or for
him to commit an assault on any other
person, with intent 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 MAIN, dis
figure or disable such other person, or to
some other grievous bodily harm to such
other person, or with intent to resist or
prevent the lawful apprehension or de-
tainer of any person, although no bodily
injury may be effected; for any servant
to steal any chattel, money or valuable
security below the value of ten dollars,
belonging to or in the possession or power
of his master OF employer, or being in any
dwelling house; for any person unlawful
ly and maliciously to burn or destroy, or
cause to be burned or destroyed, any ag-
ricultural product, although property to
the value of ten dollars may not thereby
be destroyed; for servant to assault his
master or employer, or any member OF
his masters or employers family, OF any
person authorized to direct and control
him.
Sec. VI. All simple larcenies and thefts,
where the value of the goods and chattcls,
moneys and valuable securities is stolen,
is less than ten dollars, shall be misde-
meanors, punishableb by whipping, corporal
punishment, hard labor and the necessary
at the discretion. of the
Court.
SEC. VII. Ofchattels, moneys and val
liable securities, which were delivered by
the owners thereof to any other person to
be kept carried or otherwise dealt with
for the owner, or Which were in the Gus
tody of any other person, under any trust
reposed in such other person by the own
er, the felonics carrying away by such
other person, shall be larceny.
SEC. VIII. If any clerk, servant OF
other employee, shall receive or take into
his possession any chattel, money OF val
uabIo security, for or in the name of, or
on the account of his employer or mas
ter, and shall fraudulently embezzle the
same, or any part thereof, such clerk, ser
want or employee shall, upon conviction
thereof, .bc punished in the same way as
if he had been convicted of having felo-
niously stolen from the employer or mas
ter, chattels, moneys OF valuable securi-
tics of the same amount in value. Inany
such case, except when the offender shall
relate To ohattel, it shall be sufficient to
alleee the embezzlement to be of money,
without specifying any particular coin or
valuable security, and to prove the embez-
zloment of any amount of moneys or val
liable securities. If in any such case,
upon the trial the proof shall show Lar
ccny, the Jury shall be at liberty to re-
turn q verdict that the offender g not
guilty Of embezzlement, but is guilty of
simple larceny, or of larceny as a servant,
as the case may be; and upon the trial of
clerk, servant or employee for larceny,
if the proof shall show an embezzlement,
the Jury shall be at liberty to return q
verdict that the offender is not guilty of
larceny, but is guilty Of embezzloment,
and thereupon, in either case, the effect
shall be tho same as if the offence where
of the offender is found guilty had been
specially alleged; the amount in value be-
ing taken to be that which is alleged, un-
less the verdict shall fix less amount.
No person tried for embezzlement or lar
ceny as aforesaid, shall bc liable to be af-
forwards prosecuted for larceny OF en-
bezzlement upon the same facts.
Sec. TX. If any person shallincite, pro-
cure. hire or counsel servant to commit
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