Enrolled Act No. 2 of the Senate.
AN ACT defining treason and the concealment of treason, and prescribing the punishment therefor.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That treason against the State of Indiana shall consist only in levying war against it, and in giving aid and comfort to its enemies.
SEC. 2. No person shall be convicted of treason except on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act.
SEC. 3. When the overt act of treason shall have been commenced in this State, and consummated within the limits of any other State or Territory, the person charged therewith may be tried and convicted in any county in this State in which the treasonable acts charged shall have been commenced and committed.
SEC. 4. Every person convicted of treason shall suffer death, or be imprisoned in the State prison during life, in the discretion of the jury.
SEC. 5. Any person having knowledge of the commission of treason against this State, who shall wilfully omit or refuse to give information thereof to the Governor, or some judge of the Supreme, Circuit or Common Pleas Court of this State, as soon as may be, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall be imprisoned in the State prison for any period not exceeding twenty one years, and fined in any sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and shall be disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding any office for any period not less than ten years.
SEC. 6. It is declared that an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act, and the same shall take effect from and after its passage, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to have the same forthwith published in the Indianapolis Journal and Daily State Sentinel.
[Approved May 11, 1861. For legislative action thereon see pages 8, 10, 63, 84, 99, 114, 115, and 116 of these reports.]
