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First-If the vagrant belongs to any other parish of the State, and the Police Jury or any municipal corporation of said parish another parish. recommends and claims his release.

another State.

When a foreigner.

Second-If he is from any other State, and his release is recommended and claimed by the city, town or county to which he belongs. Resident of Third-If he is a foreigner, and the Consul or the Consular Agent of his nation recommends and claims his release, upon the assurance that he shall leave and not return to the State of Louisiana. Fourth-If the Board of Metropolitan Police have reason to presume that the vagrant is repentant, and will demean and behave himself as an unoffending and law-abiding person, and is claimed and vouched for by two responsible citizens and property holders of the Metropolitan Police District, who will furnish said vagrant with permanent employment or work.

278. [SEC. 965.] All persons harboring vagrants, knowing them

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to be such, shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding Penalty for harone hundred dollars nor less than fifty dollars, recoverable in the vagrants. name and by the Board of Metropolitan Police, before any Recorder or Justice of the Peace as aforesaid.

ACCESSORIES.

Accessories be

279. [SEC. 972.] Whoever shall be convicted as accessory before the fact to any crime or offense, shall suffer the same kind and 1855–130. extent of punishment, according to the circumstances of the case, as might lawfully be inflicted upon the principal offender for such crime or offense.

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Accessories after the fact,

280. [SEC. 973.] Whoever shall be convicted as accessory after the fact to any crime or offense, shall suffer fine or imprisonment, or how punished. both, at the discretion of the court.

PUNISHMENT.

281. [SEC. 974.] The Judge shall have the power to sentence

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any person who may be convicted for a second or third offense to Punishment for double and triple the penalty imposed by law, and for a fourth third and fourth offense, the person so convicted may be sentenced to perpetual imprisonment.

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executed.

282. [SEC. 975.] In all cases where the sentence of death shall have been pronounced upon any person in the parish of Orleans, it sentence of shall be executed by hanging the person by the neck until he be leans, how dead, within the inclosure of the prison of the parish, in the presence of the Sheriff and at least four witnesses residing therein, who shall duly attest the same under oath, which attestation shall be returned by the Sheriff to the court which pronounced the sentence.

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Witnesses for the accused to be bound over to appear at court. 39 Witnesses for the State to be bound over to appear at court.. Depositions and recognizances returnable to the Clerk's office..... 40 Money, goods or chattels stolen, weapons, etc., to be used as evidence, to be securely kept by Clerk..... 40 Justices may bind over to keep the

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Attorney General, District Attorney,
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Persons committing offenses in one
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Sentence to be executed, by whom.. 58 No change of venue before arraignment..

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Prisoner to be transferred when change of venue is awarded...... 60 Prisoner on bail and sureties to appear where the cause has been transferred to.....

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FORFEITURE OF BONDS AND RECOGNIZANCES.

Judgments on forfeited bonds and

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Persons indicted for embezzlement, as a clerk, etc., may be found guilty of larceny, and vice versa.. 88 On a joint indictment for receiving property, any of the parties may be found guilty who shall be proved to have received any part of said property... Accessories and receivers may be tried before the principal.... Certain distinct acts of stealing may be inserted in different counts in same indictment..... 91 When and how prosecutor may be held to elect in indictment for larceny.. What is sufficient description in indictment as to money or bank notes

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ART. 3. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in this State, otherwise than for the punishment of crime, whereof ished. the party shall have been duly convicted.

Prosecutions.

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ART. 6. Prosecutions shall be by indictment or information. The accused shall be entitled to a speedy public trial by an impartial Trial by jury. jury of the parish in which the offense was committed, unless the Rights of acvenue be changed. He shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself; he shall have the right of being heard by himself or counsel; he shall have the right of meeting the witness face to face, and shall have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor. He shall not be tried twice for the same offense.

ART. 7. All persons shall be bailable by sufficient securities, unless for capital offenses where the proof is evident, or the presump- Bail. tion great, or unless after conviction, for any crime or offense

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