TITLE I. PERSONS PUNISHABLE FOR CRIME... III. DEGREES IN THE COMMISSION OF CRIMES AND AT- V. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.. 41-41y VI. OF CRIMES BY AND AGAINST THE EXECUTIVE POWER VII. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE LEGISLATIVE POWER.... 59-70 VIII. OF CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE: CHAPTER I. Bribery and corruption... III. Escapes and aiding therein... IV. Forging, stealing, mutilating and falsifying judicial and public records and documents. V. Perjury and subornation of perjury... VII. Other offenses against public justice.. TITLE IX. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON: TITLE X. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON AND AGAINST PUB- CHAPTER I. Crimes against religious liberty and conscience..... 255-277 II. Rape, abduction, carnal abuse of children, and se- 291-297 CHAPTER V. Bigamy, incest and the crime against nature....... 298–304 VI. Violating sepulture and the remains of the dead... 305-315 VII. Indecent exposures, obscene exhibitions, books and prints, and disorderly houses.. XII. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND XIII. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PUBLIC PEACE.. XIV. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE REVENUE AND PROPERTY XV. OF CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY: II. Burglary and housebreaking. III. Forgery and counterfeiting.. IV. Larceny, including embezzlement. V. Extortion and oppression..... VI. False personation and cheats..... 562-574 VII. Fraudulently fitting cut and destroying ships and VIII. Misconduct and frauds in relation to insurance cor- porations, associations and societies.... IX. False weights and measuris.... X. Fraudulent insolvencies by individuals. XI. Fraudulent insolvencies by corporations, and other XII. Frauds in the sale of passage tickets.. 615-627 635-654 TITLE XVI. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS... 655-669 670-676 XVIII. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 677-727 THE PENAL CODE. CHAPTER 676, LAWS OF 1881. 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892 and 1893. Passed July 26, 1881; three tifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS. 2. Its effect. 15. Punishment of misdemeanors. $ 2. Its effect.-No act or omission begun after the beginning of the day on which this Code takes effect as a law, shall be deemed criminal or punishable, except as prescribed or authorized by this Code, or by some statute of this state not repealed by it. Any act or omission begun prior to that day may be inquired of, prosecuted and punished in the same manner as if this Code had not been passed. A section of this Code, even if it purported to enact a rule applicable to past as well as future transactions, is void as to the former only, in case they are separable. People v. O'Neil, 109 N. Y., 262; 14 St. Rep., 829; Jaehne v. People, 6 N. Y. Cr.. 240 See Darrow v. Family Fund Society, 116 N. Y., 542; 27 St. Rep., 476; People r. Jaebne, 3 St. Rep., 111; 103 N. Y., 193; 4 N. Y. Cr., 193; People v. Beckwith, 7 id., 148; 12 si. Rep., 795: People v. Bernardo, 1 N. Y. Cr., 248; People r. Hollenbeck, id., 431, note; 65 How., 401; People v. Hatter, 22 N. Y. Su p., 690. |