Excerpt from The Complete Works of Edward Livingston on Criminal Jurisprudence, Vol. 1 of 2: Consisting of Systems of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana and for the United States of America, With the Introductory Reports to the Same

Apunishable by law, defining the same in clear and explicit terms, designating the punishment to be in¿icted on each laying down the rules Of evidence on trials directing the whole mode of procedure, and pointing out the duties Of the judicial and executive Officers in the performance of their functions under it.

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