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1 Job R. Tyson, Essay on the Penal Law of Pennsylvania 1 (1827)

handle is hein.lawacad/esyplwpa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ESSAY
ON
THE PENAL LAW

OF PENNSYLVANIA.
PUBLISHED BY ORDER Or THE LAW ACADEMY OF PHILADELPHIA.
BY JOB R. TYSON,
Student of Law, and Member of the Law Academy.
A very slight refeetion on the numberless unforeseen events whihe a day may bring
forth, will be suffeient to sbow that we are aU liable to the imputation of guilt; and
consequently all interested, not only in the protection of innocence, but in the assign-
ment to every particular offence, of the smallest punishment compatible with the safety
of society.-Eden's Principkes of Penal Law, p. 330.
PHILADELPHIA:
PUBLISHED BY THE LAW ACADEMY.
Mifflin & Parry, Printers.
1827.