Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-10-31

ing The Sections Applicable TO thi.
Practice are Given Outlaw is very
Severe and the Indications are thai
4 1t win be Enforced.
The following has been given out
| by the University authorities. They
evidently intend it as warning &c
hazers who are reported to be active.
1t is the intention of those in charge
of things to prevent any further out
breaks in this direction. The state
ment is as follows:
! As Halloween Is near at hand, and
numerous persons have habit of TAX
| ing liberties with the property Of
their neighbors, their attention is in
yited to the following very stringent
| legislation which will cover almost
every case than can arise, In which
two or more persons engage in injur-
ing, destroying or carrying away
gates, doorsteps, and other property
not their own. Nearly all OF these
mischievous pranks are done in a
thougtless way, without any appreci-
alton of the penalty which may be
imposed, and therefore the reading OF
the following statutes may be the
means of saving much trouble and
expense.
If two or more persons, funder the
name Of red men, regulators, vigilance
committee, or with any other name,
or without a namel combine or con-
spire together for the purpose of in
flicting any punishment or bodily in
jury upon any other person or persons,
or for the purpose of destroying, injuf-
ing or taking and carrying aacog any
property, real or personal, not theiI
own, every such person, t0ltetlier he has
done any oct in pursuance Of such CONF
bsnataon or conspiracy, or not, shall be
guilty of a ntisdemedhor and fined not
less than fifty dollars, nor more than
| five hundred dollars, and may, at thu
discretion Of the court, be confined in
| jail not less than one nor more than
twelve months. (Sec. o, Oh. 14s OF
the Code.)
IF any person in pursuance of such
combination or conspiracy as is men
toned ia the next preceding section,
shall inflict any punishment or bodily
injury upon another person, or shall
destroy or take and carry away any
property, real or personal, not his
own, he shall be guilty Of felony and
confined in the penitentia1y not less
/ than tloo nor more than ten gears.
And if on the trial of an indictment
under this section it be proved that
/ two or more persons, the defendant
being one were present aiding and
abetting in the commission of the Of
Tense charged therein it shall be pre-
sumed that such offense was commit
ted in pursuance of such combination
or conspiracy in the absence OF salts
1 factory proof to the contrary, and al
persons who shall be present aiding
and abetting at the commission OF
/ any offense mentioned in this section
shall be deemed conspirators within
the meaning Of this and the next pre-
ceding section.
(Sec. 10, Oh. l48 Of the Code.)
'sNo person called as witness fol-
The state on the trial of any person fol
an offense mentioned in eight of the
/ two next preceding sections shall be
excused from answering any question
which may be asked him as such wit
ness, and which would be otherwise
legal and proper, on the ground that
the answer to such question would OF
might degrade him or expose him to
punishment; but no such witness who
shall fully and truly answer all such
questions as may be asked him touch
ing his connection with or knowledge
of such combination or conspiracy OF
of the offense charged in the indict-
ment in pursuance of such combina-
tion or conspiracy, shall thereafter be
prosecuted or punished for the same
offense mentioned in the indictment
upon which the accused is being
! tried"
Sec. II, Oh. 14s of the Code.
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