A practical treatise on the criminal law
Subtitle: comprising the practice, pleadings, and evidence which occur in the course of criminal prosecutions, whether by indictment or information : with a copious collection of precedents of indictments, informations, presentments, and every description of practical forms : with comprehensive notes as to each particular offence, the process, indictment, plea, defence, evidence, trial, verdict, judgment, and punishment
By: by Joseph Chitty ; with additional notes of decisions in the courts of the United States, and of many of the state courts, and also of precedents used in some of those courts, by Richard Peters, Jr.
Contributors: Peters, Richard, 1780-1848.
Publisher: Published by Isaac Riley
Published: 1819
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Criminal law -- Great Britain; Criminal law -- United States
Other titles: Riley's edition.
Notes: Shaw & Shoemaker 47590, 47591
Cohen, M.L.  Bib. of early Amer. law, 3697
Vol. 2, in 2 parts, paged continuously, has imprint: Philadelphia : Published by Isaac Riley, 1819 ([Philadelphia] : G.L. Austin, Printer)
Includes index.