(a) In a wide sense the term "prosecution " is applied to the whole of the proceedings for bringing the offender to justice.
(b) 4 Bl. 301. (c) Ibid.
(a) v. p. 335. (b) 2 Hawk. c. 25, s. 4.
(c) Ibid. R. v. Hall, L. R. (1891), I Q. B. 747; 60 L.J. (M.C.) 124.
(d) .R. v. Robinson, 2 Burr. .799.
(a) v. 14 & 15 Vict. c. l00, s, 23. (b) 45 & 46 Vict. c. 75, s 12.
(a) 4. Bl. 308. For fuller details as to the practice on Criminal Informations, see Crown Office Rules, 1886. For numerous instances of the granting and refusal of leave to file a Criminal Information, see Arch.p. 124.
(b) v. Harris p. 299[Court of the Coroner] (c) 50 & 51 Vict. c. 71, ss. 3, 4.
(a) 50 & 51 Vict. c. 71, s. 5.
(b) For form of Inquisition, see 50 & 51 Vict. c. 71, Sched. 2.
(c) Ibid. s. 20. (d) Ibid. a. 4 (5). (e) Ibid. s. 5.
(f) R v. Price. L. R. 12 Q. B. D. 247; 53. L.J. (M.C. ) 51; 15 Cox 389; 33 W. R. 45n; v. also R. v. Stephenson, L. R, 13 Q. B. D. 331; 53 L. J. (M.C.) 176; 52 L.T.N.S. 267; 33 W.R .244; 15 Cox 679; Warb. L. C.97.
{g) The old mode of trial by appeal, involving a trial by battle, was abolished after Thornton's Case (l B. & Ald. 405) by 59 Geo. 3, c. 46.
(h) v. Harris .p. 85.
(a) 11 & 12 Vict. C. 42, ss. 16, 20.
{b) 42 & 43 Vict. c. 22 ; amended by 47 & 48 Vict. c. 58.
(c) 42 & 43 Vict. c. 22, s. 2. (d) Ibid. a. 2.
(a) 6 Geo. 4, c. 50, s. 1.
(b) 2 Burr. 1088
(a) 19 & 20 Vict. c. 54, s. l.
{b) Arch. 88.
(a) Arch. 89; v. Harris p. 331. (b) 22 & 23 Vict. c. 17, s. l.
(c) See s. 2, as to a justice refusing to commit or bail a person charged before him, in which case the justice is bound, if the prosecutor require it, to bind him over to prosecute under this Act.
(a) 32 & 33 Vict. c. 62, s.18.
(b) 44 & 45 Vict. c 6o, s 6.
(c) 48 & 49 Vict. c. 69, s. 17. As to misdemeanors under this Act, v. Harris p. 166 et seq.
(d) 50 & 51 Vict c. 28, s. 13.
(e) 30& 31 Vict. c. 35, s. 2. (f) Ibid. s. l.
(a) 30 & 31 Vict. c. 35, s. 10. (b) But v. Harris p. 359.
N.B.
Arch.: Archbold's Pleading and Evidence in Criminal Cases, 1893
Bl.: Blackstone's Commentaries