Where a judge, corrupted by a bribe of any description whatever, puts an innocent man to death, he himself shall be punished in like manner. If he should discharge a person who has committed a capital crime, he shall pay sevenfold the amount which he received for his release, to him who was injured by the criminal; and, stripped of judicial power, and rendered infamous, he shall be compelled by the judge who succeeds him, to produce in court the party whom he released; so that the latter, when, convicted, may undergo the punishment which he deserved. =THE GLORIOUS FLAVIUS RECESVINTUS, KING.= =VI. Concerning the Punishment of a Judge who Improperly Discharges a Criminal.= A judge shall not spare a criminal, on account of the patronage or friendship of any person. If, in his leniency and partiality, he should not vindicate the innocent, or should discharge the guilty, he shall not be put to death, or undergo any mutilation of body; but shall only pay the sum required by law in satisfaction for homicide, or of any other crime which may be involved. =ANCIENT LAW.= =VII. A Person Guilty of Crime shall Receive the Sentence of the Law not Secretly, but in Public.= When a judge inflicts the death penalty upon a criminal, he shall execute the sentence of the law not in secret and retired places, but publicly, in the sight of all. TITLE V. CONCERNING FORGERS OF DOCUMENTS. =I.= _Concerning those who Forge Royal Orders and Mandates._ =II.= _Concerning those who Forge Documents, or Attempt to Forge Them._ =III.= _Concerning those who Forge, or Serve, False Orders in the Name of the King, or a Judge._ =IV.= _Concerning those who Falsify a Will against the Consent of a Party while Living, or Disclose the Contents of the Same._ =V.= _Concerning those who Attempt to Forge or Conceal the Will of a Person Already Deceased._ =VI.= _Where Anyone Assumes a Fictitious Name, or Adopts a False Lineage or Relationship._ =VII.= _Concerning Documents Fraudulently Dated, Prior to their Execution._ =VIII.= _Concerning Later Documents Fraudulently Executed._ =IX.= _Concerning those who Falsely Write, or Publish, Decrees and Edicts of the King._ =I. Concerning those who Forge Royal Orders and Mandates.=