Excerpt from The Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York: Being Chapter 442 of the Laws of Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-One Pursuant to the direction of the act entitled An act relative to the publi cation of the Laws, passed April 12, 1843. I hereby certify that the following volume of the Laws of this State was printed under my direction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.