Download or read book Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Revise the Penal Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, January 4, 1860 (Classic Reprint) written by Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Revise the Penal Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, January 4, 1860 If, however, this suggestion should not meet the legislative approbation, a few slight alterations in a few of the sections cf bill No. 1, will restore the principle of maximum and minimum punishments, as it now partially exists in our penal legislation. There are also some features in our existing criminal code which entirely disappear in the present, and which it is therefore proper should be noticed here. Among, these are the prevailing distinctions between grand and petit larceny, and the forfeiture of the lands and goods of the offender upon convie tion of certain crimes. 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.