A treatise of the pleas of the Crown [electronic resource] : or, a system of the principal matters relating to that subject, digested under proper heads. In two books. By William Hawkins, serjeant at law. Book the first. The sixth edition, in which the text is carefully collated with the original work; the marginal References corrected; new References from the modern Reporters added; a Variety of Manuscript Cases inserted; and the whole enlarged by an Incorporation of the several Statutes upon Subjects of Criminal Law, to the Twenty-Seventh Year of George the Third. To which an Explanatory Preface is prefixed, and new and copious Indexes are subjoined. By Thomas Leach Esq. of the middle temple, Barrister at law.