It may be by act of omission, e. g., where a public officer, charged with the duty of rescuing bathers, neglects his duty and one is drowned.
The following is, perhaps, as complete a classification as the subject admits : Offences against the sovereignty of the state. 1. Treason. 2. Misprision of treason. Offences against the lives and persons of individuals. 1. Murder. 2. Manslaughter.
3. Attempts to murder or kill. 4. Mayhem. Rape. 6. Robbery. 7. Kidnapping. 8. False imprisonment. 9. Abduction. 10. As sault and battery. 11. Abortion. 12. Cruel ty to children.
Offences against public property. 1. Burn ing or destroying public property. 2. Injury to the same.
Offences against private property. 1. Ar son. 2. Burglary. 3. Larceny. 4. Obtaining goods on false pretences. 5. Embezzlement.
6. Malicious mischief.
Offences against public justice. 1. Perju ry. 2. Bribery. 3. Destroying public rec ords. 4. Counterfeiting public seals. 5. Jail breach. 6. Escape. 7. Resistance to officers.
8. Obstructing legal process. 9. Barratry. 10. Maintenance. 11. Champerty. 12. Con tempt of court. 13. Oppression. 14. Extor tion. 15. Suppression of evidence. 16. Com pounding felony. 17. Misprision of felony.
Offences against the public peace. 1. Chal lenging or accepting a challenge to a duel. 2. Unlawful assembly. 3. Rout. 4. Riot. 5.
Breach of the peace. 6. Libel.
Offences against chastity. 1. Sodomy. 2. Bestiality. 3. Adultery. 4. Incest. 5. Big amy. 6. Seduction. 7. Fornication. 8. Las civious carriage. 9. Keeping or frequenting hofise of ill-fame.
Offences against public policy. 1. False currency. 2. Lotteries. 3. Gambling. 4. Im moral shows. 5. Violations of the right of suffrage. 6. Destruction of game, fish, etc.
7. Nuisance.
Offences against the currency, and public and private securities. 1. Forgery. 2. Coun terfeiting. 3. Passing counterfeit money.
Offences against religion, decency, and morality. 1. Blasphemy. 2. Profanity. 3. Sabbath-breaking. 4. Obscenity. 5. Cruelty to animals. 6. Drunkenness. 7. Promoting intemperance. See 2 Sharsw. Bla. Com. 42.
Offences against the public, individuals, or their property. 1. Conspiracy.
Under recent legislation certain new of fences have been created, such as conspira cies in restraint of trade; infractions of rules affecting commerce and carriers and the like. These have been called commercial crimes; such, for instance, as infractions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
As to state compensation to one unjustly accused of crime, see RESTITUTION.
See CONTINUINO OFFENCE; LETTER; IN TENT ; PROSECUTOR ; CRIMINAL LAW.