Huckster

Compare Hawker. HUE-AlfD-CRY.i In old common law, puisuing, with horn and voice, felons and such as dangerously wounded another. Statute of 13 Edw. I (1286), c. 1-4, directed' that every county should be so well kept, that immediately upon felonies being committed, fresh suit should be made from town to town and from county to county, and that hue and cry should be raised upon the felons, and that they that kept the town should follow with hue and cry with all the town and the towns near, until the fugitives were taken.. By statute of 27 Eliz. (1585), c. 13, no hue and cry was sufficient unless made with both horsemen and footmen... The wholp district was liable to be amerced, according to the law of Alfred, if a felon escaped. Hue and cry could be raised either by the precept of a justice, or by a peace-officer, or by any private man who knew that a felony had been committed. The party raising it i Shihagan ti. State, 9 Tex. 431 (1833); 10 id. Ztb, 545 12 Ala. 492; 19 id. 538; 20 id. 51; 27 id. 31, 47; 25 id. 78 29 id. 40, 46; 30 id. 19, 524, 532, 550; 31 id. 371; 32 id. 596 35 id. 390. » Re Executive Communication, 12 Fla. 656 (1868). 'Southworth v. Palmyra, &C. E. Co., 2 Mich. 288 (1851); Greene. Weller, 32 Miss. 669(1856); Frellseni;. JHahan, 21 La. An. 103 (1869). * Hue: F. huer, to hoot, shout; or, to foot, i. e., up communicated all the circumstances he knew as to the crime and the person of the felon."