California criminal law
Edition: 3d ed., rev. and enl.
Publisher: O.W. Smith
Published: 1949
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Description: This work is prepared in consequence of many requests from members of the legal profession and peace officers is not a revision of the author's work of similar title published in 1927, but is an entire rewriting of the subject matter. The crimes selected for particular presentation are those felonies which are most frequently before our courts and which involve the basic principles of the law of crimes. In this third edition, effort has been made to include the decisions of the courts, and the statutes as amended since the first two editions.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: third edition; title: Chapter 1. Statutory provisions; title: Crime defined; title: Chapter 2. Penalties; title: Chapter 3. Element of crime; title: Chapter 4. Consent; title: entrapment; title: Chapter 5. Lesser offense; title: Chapter 6. Attempts; title: Chapter 7. Reasonable doubt; title: Chapter 8. Capacity to commit crime; title: Chapter 9. Intoxication; title: Chapter 10. Principal and agent; title: Chapter 11. Principals and accessories; title: Chapter 12. Compounding crimes; title: Chapter 13. Accomplices; title: Chapter 14. Conspiracy; title: Chapter 15. Homicide; title: Murder; title: Manslaughter; title: Chapter 16. Excusable and justifiable homicide; title: Chapter 17. Assaults; title: Chapter 18. Mayhem and crimes involving restraint; title: Chapter 19. Rape; title: Sexual offenses; title: Chapter 20. Arson; title: Chapter 21. Theft; title: Embezzlement; title: Chapter 22. Larceny; title: Obtaining property by false pretenses; title: Chapter 23. Robbery; title: Extortion; title: Chapter 24. Burglary; title: Receiving stolen property; title: Chapter 25. Forger; title: fictitious bills; title: Chapter 26. Issuing check with intent to defraud; title: Chapter 27. Bribery; title: Chapter 28. Perjury; title: Chapter 29. Escape; title: injuring public jail; title: Chapter 30. Dangerous weapons control law; title: Chapter 31. California vehicle code; title: Chapter 32. Narcotics; title: Chapter 33. Former jeopardy; title: Index.