tifiable_ homicide is that which is committed in the
necessary defense of one's person, house, or goods, or of the person of
another when in danger of injury; or that which is committed in lawfully
attempting to take a person for felony committed, or to suppress a riot,
or to keep the peace. _Excusable_ homicide is the killing of a person by
accident, or while lawfully employed, without any design to do wrong. In
the two last cases there is no punishment.

Sec.9. Intentionally _maiming_ another by cutting out or disabling the
tongue or any other member or limb; inveigling or _kidnapping_;
_decoying_ and taking away children; _exposing children_ in the street
to abandon them; committing or attempting an assault with _intent to
kill_, or to commit any other felony, or in resisting the execution of a
legal process; _administering poison_ without producing death;
_poisoning any well_ or spring of water; are all felonies, and
punishable as such.

Sec.10. _Burglary_ is maliciously and forcibly breaking into and entering
in the night time, any dwelling-house or other building, with intent to
commit a crime. Breaking into and entering a house by day, is considered
a minor degree of burglary.

Sec.11. _Forgery_ consists in falsely making, counterfeiting, or altering
any instrument of writing, with intent to defraud. The word
_counterfeiting_ is generally applied to making false coin or bank
notes, or in passing them; or in having in possession any engraved
plate, or bills unsigned, which are intended to be used for these
purposes.

Sec.12. _Robbery_ is the taking of personal property from another in his
presence and against his will, by violence, or by putting him in fear of
immediate injury to his person. Knowingly to send or deliver, or to make
for the purpose of being sent, a letter or writing, threatening to
accuse any one of crime, or to do him some injury, with intent to extort
or gain from him any money or property, is considered an _attempt to
rob_, for which the offender may be imprisoned.

Sec.13. _Embezzlement_ is fraudulently putting to one's own use what is
intrusted to him by another. To buy or receive property knowing it to
have been embezzled, is to be guilty of the same offense. Embezzling is
usually punishable in the same manner as larceny of the same amount.

Sec.14. _Larceny_ is theft or stealing. The stealing of property above a
certain amount in value is called _grand larceny_, and is a state prison