As to what, by the common law, is reckoned night and what day, it seems to be the general opinion that, if there be daylight, or crepusculumr enough begun or left to discern a man’s face, that is considered day; and night is when It is so dark that the countenance of a man cannot be discerned. 1 Hale, P. C. 350. However, the limit of 9 P.M. to 6 A.M. has been fixed by statute, in England, as the period of night, In prosecutions for burglary and larceny. St. 24