Sec.6. Manslaughter is killing a person either upon a sudden quarrel, or unintentionally while committing some unlawful act.  The statutes of New York define four different degrees of manslaughter.

Sec.7. Arson is maliciously burning any dwelling-house, shop, barn, or any other building, the property of another.  Arson in the first degree, which is burning an inhabited dwelling in the night time, is in some states punishable with death.

Sec.8. Homicide signifies mankilling.  It is of three kinds:  felonious, justifiable, and excusable.  When felonious, it is either murder or manslaughter. Justifiable 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.