TREASON

treachery against the State. In the early history of England, treachery was adjudged to be a crime against the sovereign, as representative of the State. The punishment for high t. has always been death. In early times hanging was accompanied by drawing and quartering and other extreme refinements of punishment—a code to which Scots law in some respects still adheres. The punishment is now execution by hanging. The accused is furrished before the trial with a copy of the indictment and the names of the witne es. Acce ories before the fact in cases of stiheay after the fact are liable to imprisonment.