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que trouxeram em minha vida.
 Agradecimentos

Não poderia deixar de agradecer aos que contribuíram para que esta
nova edição, ampliada e atualizada, se tornasse uma realidade. Esse livro
surgiu a partir da transformação do Direito Processual Penal, publicado em
dois tomos, pela Editora Elsevier, nesse novo livro, com o título Processo
Penal, editado em um único volume, que já teve duas publicações pela
mesma editora e, agora, chega à nona edição em nova Editora. Agradeço a
confiança e o convite que me foi formulado pela Thomson Reuters Revista
dos Tribunais.
Desde a primeira versão do Direito Processual Penal, até esta nova e
reformulada 9.a edição do Processo Penal, são muitas noites de sono não
dormido, centenas de horas de pesquisa doutrinária e análise de repertórios
de jurisprudência. Ainda bem que é assim, senão, qual seria a graça?
Recebi observações de leitores amigos, sejam alunos, sejam colegas
de escritório, que apontavam erros de digitação, referências a artigos
equivocadas, sugestões de novos temas a serem tratados etc. A todos, meu
sincero agradecimento, pois nem mesmo a leitura atenta de todos os que se
dispuseram a me ajudar pôde evitar, quando da publicação das edições
anteriores do Direito Processual Penal, tais falhas.
Agradeço especialmente ao meu pai, Sérgio Salgado Ivahy Badaró,
pelas opiniões e correções no texto. Pelos ensinamentos de vida e pelas
lições jurídicas durante todo o tempo de convivência no escritório. Para
minha esposa, Jennifer Cristina Ariadne Falk Badaró, agradeço pela
compreensão, por aceitar minhas ausências nos meses em que me dediquei
ao livro, mas também pelas correções e sugestões que contribuíram
decisivamente para o conteúdo e para a forma do livro. Aos meus filhos,
Luca e Enrico, por compreenderem tantos “o papai não pode, tem que
trabalhar…”
O livro e suas edições anteriores, ainda que de forma resumida,
refletem tudo o que aprendi e estudei. Agradeço, profundamente, aos
Professores da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo, pela
minha formação. Serei eternamente aluno dos meus mestres Ada Pellegrini
Grinover, Antonio Magalhães Gomes Filho, Antonio Scarance Fernandes,
Rogério Lauria Tucci, Sérgio Marcos de Moraes Pitombo e Maria Thereza
Rocha de Assis Moura.
Finalmente, agradeço carinhosamente aos meus alunos de Direito
Processual Penal da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo. A
preparação das aulas foi uma fonte contínua de atualização do livro. Além
disso, não poucas vezes, ao voltar para casa, após aulas noturnas, fazia
outros acréscimos. Eram novos exemplos, argumentos ou justificativas que
se reforçavam, problemas que até então não havia imaginado, mas que
mereciam uma resposta. E tudo isso surgia na sala de aula. Cada nova
edição é fruto, também, das perguntas e das discussões em classe. Espero
poder continuar atualizando-o, estimulado pela inquietação dos estudantes,
por muitos e muitos anos.
 Apresentação

Este livro trata do programa de Direito Processual Penal. A obra, a

cada nova edição revista, atualizada e ampliada, encontra-se dividida nos
seguintes capítulos: (1) Garantias processuais e o sistema acusatório; (2)
Lei processual penal no tempo, no espaço e sua interpretação; (3) Inquérito
policial e outras formas de investigação preliminar; (4) Ação penal; (5)
Ação civil ex delicto; (6) Competência; (7) Sujeitos processuais; (8)
Questões e processos incidentes; (9) Comunicação dos atos processuais;
(10) Da prova; (11) Sentença e coisa julgada; (12) Do processo; (13) Dos
procedimentos: procedimento ordinário, sumário e sumaríssimo e
procedimentos especiais; (14) Nulidade dos atos processuais; (15)
Recursos; (16) Habeas corpus; (17) Revisão criminal; (18) Medidas
cautelares.
Buscou-se expor a matéria de forma direta e em linguagem acessível.
Sempre que necessário, são dados exemplos para facilitar a compreensão da
matéria.
Embora seja uma obra para fins didáticos, há no livro a preocupação
com aspectos práticos, tratando e procurando resolver os problemas atuais,
do dia a dia forense. Sempre que algum ponto se mostra controvertido, são
expostas as diversas correntes, com os respectivos argumentos, bem como a
indicação dos autores e dos julgados que sustentam cada uma delas. Na
análise jurisprudencial são privilegiados os julgados mais recentes,
principalmente do Supremo Tribunal Federal e Superior Tribunal de Justiça,
expondo-se, assim, a posição que atualmente encontra acolhida nos
tribunais.
Com isso, o livro procura servir tanto ao estudante, que está tendo o
primeiro contato com a matéria, como também se mostra adequado aos
bacharéis que pretendem se preparar para exames e concursos públicos.
 Nota do Autor à Nona Edição

Sempre com renovada alegria trazemos a público mais uma edição no

nosso Processo Penal.
A nona edição está atualizada com a derrubada dos vetos feitos a
dispositivos da Lei 13.964/2019.
Com relação às novidades legislativas surgidas a partir da última
edição, em temas que, direta ou indiretamente, alteram o processo penal,
não houve mudanças significativas, merecendo ser registradas apenas três
leis: a Lei 14.069, de 01.10.2020, que criou o Cadastro Nacional de Pessoas
Condenadas por Crime de Estupro, que deverá conter não só dados de
identificação datiloscópica, como identificação do perfil genético; a Lei
14.133, de 01.04.2021, Lei de Licitações e Contratos Administrativos, que
estabeleceu novos tipos penais, e revogou, na data de sua publicação, os
arts. 100 a 108 da Lei 8.666/1993, que previam um procedimento especial
para tais delitos; e a Lei 14.155, de 27.05.2021, que alterou o Código de
Processo Penal, prevendo uma hipótese de foro especial em algumas
modalidades de estelionato: o local residência da vítima.
Como já se tornou costume, a seguir, destacamos as principais
mudanças em relação à edição anterior, em que houve acréscimos no
conteúdo teórico no livro.
No Capítulo 10, minha menina dos olhos do livro, na teoria geral da
prova, foi aprofundado o estudo dos standards de prova, com o acréscimo
de esclarecimentos no item 10.2.14.3 – Propostas alternativas ao standard
de prova “além da dúvida razoável”, procurando deixar mais clara e dando
concretude à nossa proposta, inclusive em decisões como pronúncia e
recebimento da denúncia. Nos meios de prova em espécie, houve o
acréscimo do item 10.2.9.4. – “Da cadeia de custódia da prova digital”, em
que se analisa a necessidade de preservação da cadeia de custódia na
chamada digital evidence, ante seu caráter não material e a congênita
mutabilidade de elemento de prova digital. Trata-se de espécie de prova que
tem se tornado cada vez mais frequente e que poderá ser muito utilizada a
partir da recentíssima criação do crime de perseguição, pela Lei 14.132, de
31 de março de 2021, que acrescentou o art. 147-A ao Código Penal, nos
casos de stalking praticados pela rede mundial de computadores, redes
sociais ou outros meios digitais.
Como sempre, concluo com um afetuoso agradecimento aos leitores.
Nessa edição, porém, registro meu agradecimento especial para Anna
Paulina Corteletti Pereira Cardoso, pela leitura atenta da última edição, com
o apontamento de erros de digitação, bem como pelas sugestões e indicação
de novos julgados.
No difícil ano de 2020, a oitava edição se esgotou rapidamente, sendo
necessárias novas tiragem. Essa grande acolhida do leitor, ano após ano, nos
permite sempre oferecer ao público uma obra revisada e atualizada.
Uma vez mais, as críticas e sugestões são bem-vindas, recebidas como
sinal de respeito de um leitor atento e respeitoso com o livro.
Boa leitura e bons estudos. Até que tudo se normalize, estude em casa!

Gustavo Badaró
Ilhabela, junho de 2021.
 Nota do Autor à Oitava Edição

Sempre com renovada alegria trazemos a público mais uma edição no

nosso Processo Penal. A edição de 2020 vem bastante alterada,
especialmente pelas mudanças do chamado Pacote Anticrime, que se
transformou na Lei 13.964, de 24.12.2019. Foram modificados o Código
Penal, o Código de Processo Penal, a Lei de Execução Penal, além de várias
outras leis especiais. Dentre estas, merece destaques para a Lei 9.296/1996,
passando a estabelecer uma disciplina para a captação ambiental de sinais
eletromagnéticos, ópticos ou acústico, e a Lei 12.850/2013, em que houve
importantes alterações no regime da colaboração premiada.
Além da Lei 13.964/2019, no plano das inovações legislativas, na
oitava edição são analisadas as mudanças e os acréscimos promovidos no
último semestre de 2019, em temas que, direta ou indiretamente, alteram o
processo penal: (1) Emenda Constitucional 104, de 04.12.2019, que criou as
polícias penais federal, estadual e distrital; (2) a Lei 13.827, de 13.05.2019,
que autoriza a aplicação de medida protetiva de urgência pela autoridade
policial; (3) a Lei 13.869, de 26.10.2019, que tipifica os crimes de abuso de
autoridade; (4) a Lei 13.968, de 26.12.2019, que modificou o crime de
incitação ao suicídio e incluiu as condutas de induzir ou instigar a
automutilação ou prestar auxílio a quem a pratique.
A seguir, destacamos as principais mudanças em relação à edição
anterior, em que houve acréscimos no conteúdo teórico no livro.
No Capítulo 3, foi acrescido o item 3.19. “Juiz de garantais”, em que
são analisados os artigos 3°-B a 3°-E do CPP, com os seguintes subitens:
3.19.1. – “Separação das fases da persecução penal: competência
funcional”; 3.19.2. – “Função e momento de atuação”; 3.19.3. – “O rol de
competências”; e 3.19.4. – “Do impedimento para atuar na fase de instrução
e julgamento da causa”. Mesmo diante da suspensão da vigência de tais
dispositivos, seu conteúdo foi analisado, explorando suas consequências
sistemáticas, ainda que de modo condicionado. Espera-se que, em breve,
essa que foi a maior importante mudança da legislação processual penal
brasileira, desde a Constituição de 1988, esteja plenamente em vigor,
contribuindo decisivamente para alterar a ideologia do nosso processo
penal. Ainda no mesmo Capítulo 3, também foi acrescido o item 3.20, em
que se analisa o Acordo de não persecução penal, previsto no novo art. 28-
A do CPP, que se consubstancia no mais amplo instituto de justiça penal
consensual existente no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro.
No Capítulo 10, na teoria geral da prova, foi aprofundado o estudo dos
standards de prova, com o acréscimo do item 10.2.14.2. – As críticas ao
standard de prova “além da dúvida razoável”, e item 10.2.14.3 – Propostas
alternativas ao standard de prova “além da dúvida razoável”. Incorpora-se,
com isso, posicionamento crítico ao “beyond a reasonable doubt” que
desenvolvemos no livro “Epistemologia Judiciária e Prova Penal”. O tema,
talvez, seja profundo demais para um manual. Mas é preciso arriscar, para
com isso conseguir a necessária ampliação das discussões sobre esse
aspecto fundamental do juízo de fato no processo penal. Passando para os
meios de prova em espécie, houve o acréscimo do item 10.2.8. – “Da cadeia
de custódia da prova”, ante a inserção dos novos artigos 158-A a 158-F do
CPP. Seu conteúdo está dividido em: 10.2.9.1. – “Conceito e finalidade da
cadeia de custódia”; 10.2.9.2. – “Etapas da cadeia de custódia”; 10.2.9.3. –
“Das consequências da violação da cadeia de custódia”. Houve também um
maior aprofundamento no conteúdo do item 10.5.5, sobre a “Colaboração
premiada”, ante o constante desenvolvimento doutrinário e jurisprudencial,
mas também diante das mudanças provocadas pelo Pacote Anticrime.
Foram acrescidos os seguintes itens: 10.5.5.2. – “A proposta de acordo de
colaboração premiada e as tratativas do acordo”, em que são analisadas as
novas disposições dos artigos 3°-B e 3-F da Lei 12.850/2013; 10.5.5.3. –
“A retratação da proposta de colaboração e a não celebração do acordo de
colaboração”, em que foram analisadas novas regras sobre as restrições da
utilização das provas, no caso de não celebração do acordo pelo Ministério
Público ou Autoridade Policial; 10.5.5.4. – “O conteúdo do acordo”, em
que são analisados especialmente importância da previsão de cláusulas
sobre o grau de efetividade do cumprimento do acordo e dos respectivos
benefícios, bem como a modo de documentação e formalização do acordo.
Com o acréscimo desses itens, houve a renumeração dos demais
subsequentes. Por fim, acrescentou-se o item 3.14 – “Interceptação
ambiental”, em que são analisadas as novas regras do art. 8-A da Lei
9.296/1996, acrescido pela Lei 13.964/2019, que disciplinou a captação
ambiental de sinais eletromagnéticos, ópticos ou acústico.
O Capítulo 18, que tem por objeto a tutela cautelar, trata de diversos
temas que foram objetos de alterações pela Lei 13.964/2019, tendo sido
alterado e atualizado em vários itens. Além disso, foi acrescido o item
18.3.6, denominado “Da utilização dos bens constritos”, em que foi
estudado o novo art. 133-A do CPP.
Como sempre, concluo com um afetuoso agradecimento aos leitores.
Foram noites e noites sem dormir, para realmente atualizar integralmente a
edição anterior, reformulando-a em todos os pontos alterados pela Lei
13.964/2019 e acrescentado a análise de novos institutos e regras. Mas, a
grande quantidade de pedidos de amigos e leitores, em palestras e nas redes
sociais, para que escrevesse sobre os novos institutos e as alterações dos já
existentes é um reconhecimento que dá forças para superar qualquer
dificuldade e manter o compromisso de sempre oferecer ao público uma
obra atualizada. Para tanto, como sempre, as sugestões e críticas serão
sempre bem-vindas.
Boa leitura e bons estudos. Estudar é preciso, sempre.
Gustavo Badaró
Ilhabela, Carnaval de 2020.
 Nota do Autor à Sétima Edição

Com grande alegria trazemos a público a sétima edição do nosso

Processo Penal.
A seguir, destacamos as principais mudanças em relação à edição
anterior.
No plano das inovações legislativas, a sétima edição analisa as
mudanças e os acréscimos promovidos no último semestre de 2018 e no
primeiro semestre de 2019 em temas que, direta ou indiretamente, alteram o
processo penal: (1) a Lei 13.721, de 02.10.2018, que acrescentou o
parágrafo único ao art. 158 do Código de Processo Penal, estabelecendo a
prioridade à realização do exame de corpo de delito quando se tratar de
crime que envolva: I – violência doméstica e familiar contra mulher; II –
violência contra criança, adolescente, idoso ou pessoa com deficiência; (2)
a Lei 13.769, de 19.12.2018, que acrescentou o art. 318-A ao Código de
Processo Penal, criando novas hipóteses de prisão domiciliar, e o art. 318-
B, que passou a permitir a aplicação cumulativa, com a prisão domiciliar,
das medidas cautelares alternativas à prisão; (3) a Lei 13.793, de
03.12.2019, que altera o Estatuto da Advocacia e da Ordem dos Advogados
do Brasil, a Lei 11.419/2006 e o Código de Processo Civil, para assegurar
aos advogados o exame e a obtenção de cópias de atos e documentos de
processos e de procedimentos eletrônicos.
Também houve acréscimos e mudanças no conteúdo teórico da nova
edição.
No Capítulo 5, sobre “Ação Civil ex Delicto”, foi acrescido o item 5.6,
denominado “Sentença penal condenatória e a responsabilidade civil
solidária”, em que se justifica a inaplicabilidade da regra do art. 942 do
Código Civil, em relação à sentença penal condenatória.
No Capítulo 10, que trata da prova penal, foram aprofundados e
refinados alguns temas de Teoria Geral da Prova, incluindo e explicitando
os posicionamentos adotados na Tese apresentada para Concurso de
Professor Titular de Direito Processual Penal da USP, sobre Epistemologia
Judiciária e Prova Penal, que, em breve, também será publicada pela
Editora Revista dos Tribunais.
Foram acrescentados julgados, tanto do Superior Tribunal de Justiça
quanto do Supremo Tribunal Federal, em relação aos diversos assuntos em
que houve novidades jurisprudenciais.
Por fim, e como vem se repetindo a cada nova edição, gostaria de
externar meu profundo agradecimento aos leitores que, em menos de um
ano, fizeram com que se esgotasse a 6a edição. A possibilidade de, nos
últimos cinco anos, poder apresentar anualmente uma nova edição ao
público, com atualizações e ampliações de seu conteúdo, permite com que o
livro esteja sempre refletindo o estado atual da legislação, da doutrina e da
jurisprudência processuais penais. Como sempre, as sugestões e críticas
serão sempre bem-vindas.
Boa leitura e bons estudos.

Gustavo Badaró
São Paulo, julho de 2019.
 Nota do Autor à Sexta Edição

Com grande alegria trazemos a público a sexta edição do nosso

Processo Penal.
A seguir, destacamos as principais mudanças em relação à edição
anterior.
No plano das inovações legislativas, a sexta edição analisou as
mudanças e acréscimos promovidos no último semestre de 2017 e já no
início do ano de 2018 em temas que, direta ou indiretamente, alteram o
processo penal: (1) a Lei 13.466, de 12.07.2017, que acrescentou o § 5° ao
art. 71 do Estatuto do Idoso, estabelecendo uma “prioridade especial” de
tramitação, nos processos em que sejam partes idosos, para os que sejam
maiores do 80 anos; (2) a Lei 13.491, de 13.10.2017, que alterou o Código
Penal Militar, passando a atribuir ao Tribunal do Júri o julgamento dos
crimes dolosos contra a vida praticados por militares contra civis; (3) a Lei
13.497, de 26.10.2017, que alterou a redação do parágrafo único do art. 1°
da Lei 8.072/1990, para passar a considerar o delito do art. 16 da Lei
10.826, de 22.12.2003, como crime hediondo; (4) a Lei 13.505, de
08.11.2017, que acrescentou dispositivos à Lei Maria da Penha,
estabelecendo o direito de mulher em situação de violência doméstica
receber atendimento policial e pericial especializado, ininterrupto e
prestado, preferencialmente, por servidores do sexo feminino; (5) a Lei
13.603, de 09.01.2018, que alterou a Lei 9.099/1995, para incluir a
simplicidade como critério orientador do processo perante os Juizados
Especiais Criminais.
Também houve acréscimos e mudanças no conteúdo teórico da nova
edição.
A novidade mais significativa é a inclusão, no capítulo 16, do item
16.9, que analisa toda a disciplina do Recurso Ordinário em Habeas
Corpus, cada vez mais importante, diante da posição restritiva dos tribunais
superiores, quanto ao cabimento do Habeas Corpus substitutivo do recurso.
Com isso, fica suprida essa lacuna das edições anteriores. Ainda no tema
recursal, foram atualizados os temas em que o STF reconheceu haver
repercussão geral em matérias penal e processual penal, bem como aqueles
em que foi negada tal qualidade (item 15.8.2.1.1). Também foram
atualizados os temas em que o STJ julgou recursos repetitivos (item 15.8.5)
No Capítulo 10, que trata da prova penal, houve um maior
aprofundamento no conteúdo do item 10.5.5, sobre a “colaboração
premiada”, ante o constante desenvolvimento doutrinário e jurisprudencial
que o tema vem sofrendo. No Capítulo 11, no item que trata da “Sentença
condenatória” (11.1.5), continuamos a desenvolver a tese de que o juiz não
pode condenar o acusado, em caso de manifestação final do Ministério
Público no sentido de sua absolvição. Na edição anterior, apontamos a
necessidade de o juiz julgar extinto o processo, sem julgamento do mérito,
pela retirada da pretensão processual pelo MP. Nesta, tratamos da
possibilidade de o acusado se opor a tal extinção, o que levará à
necessidade do julgamento do mérito.
Foram acrescentadas mais de duas centenas de julgados, tanto do
Superior Tribunal de Justiça quanto do Supremo Tribunal Federal, em
relação aos diversos assuntos em que houve novidades jurisprudenciais.
Como sempre, mas não menos importante, termino com um imenso
agradecimento aos leitores que, em seis meses, fizeram com que se
esgotasse a 5a edição. O interesse constante, a cada uma das edições, torna
possível ofertar ao público uma obra sempre atualizada e com conteúdo
ampliado e melhorado. Para tanto, como sempre, as sugestões e críticas
serão sempre bem-vindas.
Boa leitura e bons estudos. Estudar é preciso, sempre.

Gustavo Badaró
Ilhabela, janeiro de 2017.
 Nota do Autor à Quinta Edição

Uma nova edição, como sempre, é motivo de renovada alegria.

Chegando à quinta edição, não seria pretensão dizer que se trata de uma
obra consolidada perante os leitores. Por outro lado, a felicidade de, a cada
ano, publicar uma nova edição, traz a responsabilidade de trazer ao leitor
uma análise teórica, com necessários elogios e críticas, das inovações
legislativas e das mudanças jurisprudenciais. Com esses objetivos trazemos
ao leitor a quinta edição do nosso Processo Penal.
A seguir destacamos as principais mudanças em relação à edição
anterior.
No plano das inovações legislativas, a quinta edição analisou as
mudanças e acréscimos promovidos no último ano no Código de Processo
Penal. Foram analisados os arts. 13-A e 13-B, acrescidos pela Lei 13.344,
de 6 de outubro de 2016, que tratou da prevenção e repressão ao tráfico
interno e internacional de pessoas e sobre medidas de atenção às vítimas.
Também foram feitos comentários à alteração do inc. IV e aos acréscimos
dos incisos V e VI do art. 318, tratando de hipóteses de prisões especiais,
acrescidos pela Lei 13.257/2016, que dispôs sobre as políticas públicas para
a primeira infância. A Lei 13.285, de 10 de maio de 2016, que acrescentou
o art. 394-A ao Código, prevendo que “Os processos que apurem a prática
de crime hediondo terão prioridade de tramitação em todas as instâncias”
também foi considerada na nova edição. Por fim, foi analisada a Lei 13.434,
de 12 de abril de 2017, que acrescentou o parágrafo único ao art. 292,
vedando o uso de algemas em mulheres grávidas durante parto e em
mulheres durante a fase de puerpério imediato.
Também foram objeto de análise outras mudanças legislativas que
geram reflexos no processo penal: (1) a Lei 13.363, de 25 de novembro de
2016, que, assegurando direitos e garantias para a advogada gestante,
lactante, adotante ou que der à luz, alterou o Estatuto da Advocacia e da
OAB, bem como o Código de Processo Civil; (2) a Lei 13.367, de 5 de
dezembro de 2016, que alterou a Lei 1.579/1952, que dispõe sobre as
Comissões Parlamentares de Inquérito; (3) a Lei 13.432, de 11 de abril de
2017, dispôs sobre o exercício da profissão de detetive particular; (4) a Lei
13.441, de 8 de maio de 2017, que alterou o Estatuto da Criança e do
Adolescente, passando a prever, acrescentando os art. 190-A a 190-E, que
tratam da Infiltração de Agentes de Polícia na internet, para a Investigação
de Crimes contra a Dignidade Sexual de Criança e de Adolescente.
Também houve acréscimos e mudanças no conteúdo teórico da nova
edição.
No Capítulo 10, que trata da prova penal, houve um maior
aprofundamento no conteúdo do item 10.1.13, sobre “Sistemas de
valoração da prova”. Houve, ainda, uma inversão na ordem de exposição e,
consequentemente, na numeração de subitens: nesta nova edição o item
“Critérios de decisão: o problema dos standards probatórios” foi
renumerado para 10.1.4, antecedendo o item sobre “ônus da prova”. A
mudança se justifica na medida em que, embora ambos os temas tratem do
momento da decisão, a ordem lógica é primeiro analisar o standard
probatório e, somente se este não for atingido, o julgador se valerá das
regras do ônus da prova, que determinam como deverá decidir, no caso de
dúvida.
No Capítulo 11, no item que trata da “Sentença condenatória” (11.1.5),
a novidade é o desenvolvimento da tese de que juiz não pode condenar o
acusado, na ação penal de iniciativa pública, diante da manifestação final do
Ministério Público no sentido de sua absolvição.
O Capítulo 15, que trata dos recursos, no que diz respeito ao recurso
especial e extraordinário (item 15.8) e ao agravo no recurso especial e
extraordinário (item 15.9), foram inseridos julgados dos tribunais superiores
em que já houve a aplicação do novo CPC ao processo penal.
Foram acrescentados novos julgados, tanto do Superior Tribunal de
Justiça quanto do Supremo Tribunal Federal em relação aos diversos
assuntos em que houve novidades jurisprudenciais.
Registro, uma vez mais, meu agradecimento a minha orientanda
Nathália Cassola Zugaibe, pela leitura atenta da obra e sugestões de
correções de erros de digitação e referências a artigos de lei.
Uma vez mais termino com meu carinhoso obrigado aos leitores que,
ano a ano, demonstram seu interesse pela obra e tornam possível uma nova
edição. Boa leitura!

Gustavo Badaró
São Paulo, maio de 2017.
 Nota do Autor à Quarta Edição

Com grande alegria trazemos a público a quarta edição do nosso

Processo Penal.
A seguir destacamos as principais mudanças em relação à edição
anterior.
A Lei 13.245/2016, que alterou o Estatuto da OAB, ampliando o
direito de acesso aos autos de inquérito policial e outras formas de
investigação, pelos advogados, bem com assegurando que o direito de os
advogados assistirem seus clientes que sejam investigados, sob pena de
nulidade absoluta do interrogatório ou depoimento, foi analisada no item
3.4.
No âmbito dos atos normativos internos dos tribunais, foi acrescida a
Resolução STJ 10, de 06.10.2015, que regulamenta do processo judicial
eletrônico. Também se inclui a análise da Resolução 217/2016, do CNJ, que
alterou e acrescentou dispositivos na disciplina da interceptação telefônica
(item 10.13).
O Capítulo 15, que trata dos procedimentos, foi alterado
especialmente no que diz respeito ao recurso especial e extraordinário (item
15.8) e ao agravo no recurso especial e extraordinário (item 15.9). Diante da
aplicação do novo CPC ao processo penal, e do cabimento de embargos de
divergência tanto no recurso especial quanto no recurso extraordinário, foi
acrescido um novo item 15.10, sobre Embargos de Divergência.
No Capítulo 18, sobre as medidas cautelares, foi acrescido o item
18.2.5, específico sobre a chamada “audiência de custódia”, com base em
sua regulamentação pela Resolução n. 213/2015, do CNJ, bem como tendo
em conta também Portarias, Resoluções e Provimentos, de diversos
tribunais, que tratavam do tema anteriormente.
Além disso, foram acrescentados novos julgados tanto do Superior
Tribunal de Justiça quanto do Supremo Tribunal Federal.
Uma vez mais termino com um imenso agradecimento aos leitores
que, em menos de um ano, fizeram com que se esgotasse a 3a edição.
Obrigado e boa leitura!

Gustavo Badaró
São Paulo, fevereiro de 2016.
 Nota do Autor à Terceira Edição

É com redobrada satisfação que chegamos à terceira edição do nosso

Processo Penal.
O primeiro motivo de alegria é por estarmos agora na renomada
Thomson Reuters/Editora Revista dos Tribunais que, há mais de dez anos,
publicou o meu primeiro livro, minha dissertação de mestrado sobre
Correlação entre Acusação e Sentença. Sempre foi um grande objetivo ter
meu manual publicado pela querida “RT”.
Embora não tenham ocorrido mudanças legislativas significativas no
processo penal, desde a última edição, ainda assim, justifica-se uma terceira
edição. Do ponto de vista do direito positivo, o principal motivo é a
aprovação pelo Congresso Nacional do Novo Código de Processo Civil.
Ainda que sejamos críticos de transposições simplistas de institutos e
conceitos processuais civis para o campo penal, efetivamente há pontos
omissos no Código de Processo Penal em que é necessário recorrer à
analogia com lei processual civil. Assim, todas as vezes que há referência a
algum artigo do vigente Código de Processo Civil de 1973, foi feita uma
observação, em nota de rodapé, sobre o correspondente artigo no Novo
Código de Processo Civil.
Além disso, efetivamente, trata-se de uma edição ampliada e alterada
em vários pontos.
Foram acrescentados vários tópicos no Capítulo 10, sobre as provas.
Na teoria geral da prova, foi acrescido o item 10.1.6, que trata da
classificação das provas pré-constituídas e constituendas, com vistas a
diferenças quanto ao regime do contraditório. Também foi ampliada a
discussão sobre a valoração da prova e, em especial, o art. 155, caput, do
CPP, com a inserção de três subitens: 10.1.13.1. O valor dos elementos
informativos do inquérito policial; 10.1.13.2. O valor dos elementos não
produzidos em contraditório: corroboração; 10.1.13.3. Exceções ao
contraditório: as provas cautelares, antecipadas e irrepetíveis.
Other documents randomly have
different content
pressed ‘flyer’ of his country’s forests when the grim gazehounds are
close on haunch and flank.
Straight as a line for the men that held the captive maids went the
henchman, and as they hurriedly released their prey and stood on
guard, Mr. Neuchamp could have offered a votary’s prayer to the
patron saint of old England’s weaponless gladiators, as he marked
the unarmed Anglo-Saxon’s rapid unswerving onset.

Though there, the western mountaineer

Rushed with bare bosom on the spear,
And flung the feeble targe aside,
And with both hands the broadsword plied.

Mr. Windsor so far resembled Donald at Flodden Field, that he

trusted chiefly to natural strength and courage. But none the less did
he display an amount of coolness and cunning of fence
characteristically Australian.
Charging the nearest Frenchman, as he took him to be, and indeed
in all future relation so described him, with the velocity of a mallee
three-year-old, he feinted with his right hand at the forehead of his
foe, and as the Mexican-Spaniard, for such he was, raised his arm
for a deadly stab, he suddenly gripped his wrist, catching him full in
the face with the ‘terrible left,’ and stretched him senseless and
bleeding at his feet. Snatching up the knife, he had but time to parry
a stroke which shrewdly scored his right arm, when his other
antagonist was upon him. Both men glared at one another with
uplifted knives—for a moment; in the next Mr. Windsor swept his
antagonist’s outstretched foot from under him with a Cornish
wrestler’s trick—a lift—a dull thud, and he lay on his back, with
Jack’s knee on his chest and the dangerous knife in the bushman’s
belt.
In the meanwhile Miss Frankston, perceiving that the men who had
charge of the boat showed no disposition to quit their station, half
dragged, half raised Miss Folleton along the path to the verandah
steps, halting just within sight of the combatants.
‘Now, do you prefer being dragged up to the house, Von
Schätterheims?—by Jove! I shoot you where you stand if you resist,’
inquired Ernest of that nobleman, whom he had mastered after a
severe struggle, and whose revolver he now pointed at those
classical features, ‘or will you depart in God’s name, and rid us of
your presence for ever?’
‘It is Fade,’ said the Count gloomily. ‘He is too strong. My shtar is
under an efil influence. I will quid dese accurset lants. Let your man
—teufel dat he is with his boxanglais—release my grew, and I go;
but stay—I am guildy by your laws; why should you release me?’
‘You deserve death for your outrage,’ replied Ernest sternly. ‘You
could hardly escape lifelong imprisonment. But I would not willingly
see the man, at whose board I have sat, in the felon’s cell. Go, and
repent. Also—and this is my chief reason—I would willingly evade
the esclandre which your public trial for this day’s proceedings would
cause.’
‘Ha! not the deet. But the fama—what you call “scandall,”’ said the
Count wonderingly. ‘But you English, you are as efer, a strange—a so
wunderlich beoples. Still, I go. It is all that is left to Albert von
Schätterheims in this hemis-vahr—to steal away, like the hund,
beaden, disgraced, dishonoured. Fahrwohl. Dell to the Fräulein my
regret, my despair, my shames. Under another schtar Albert von
Schätterheims mighd haf geliebt und gelebt—but all dings is now
ofer.’
Ernest stepped back and motioned him to arise, still keeping guard.
The Count called aloud to his men, one of whom still lay beneath Mr.
Windsor’s thrall, and the other sitting up, all blood-stained, swayed
backward and forward, as only half recovered from a swoon.
‘Let your men go, John,’ said Mr. Neuchamp. ‘The treaty of
Morahmee is arranged between the high contracting powers. They
will not renew the war,’ he continued, as the Count and Jack’s last
antagonist between them raised the fainting man and led him down
to the gig, which in the briefest period was seen heading for the
yacht as fast as oars could drive her.
‘My word, sir,’ said Mr. Windsor, ‘it looked very crooked when I come
on the ground. I saw that frog-eating mounseer potting you with his
squirt like a tree’d ’possum—both the young ladies, too, being run
off to sea with, clean and clear against their wills. I don’t hold with
that sea business at all—it’s dangerous—let alone with a boss like
the Count, who’s wanted in his own country, like as not. However,
we euchred ’em this time, whoever plays next game.’
‘You behaved like a trump, Jack. You were my genuine “right
bower,”’ said Mr. Neuchamp with unwonted humour and heartiness.
‘Without you we should never have won the odd trick. I knew that
you were just behind me at Woolloomooloo; but I was terribly afraid
that you could not be up in time.’
‘If one John Windsor’s anyways handy when you’re in trouble, sir,
you’ll mostly find him there or thereabouts, as long as he’s alive,
that is. I can’t say afterwards. What do you think, sir, about what
comes after all this rough-and-tumble that we coves call life?’
demanded Jack with sudden interest.
‘I don’t think too much about it, which is perhaps the best wisdom.
But of this we may be sure, John, that no man will fare worse in the
other world for doing his duty as a man and a Christian in this.’
When the house was reached, it appeared that Miss Folleton had
been handed over to the good offices of her friend’s maid, and was
recovering her nervous system in the seclusion of a guest-chamber.
Antonia, having smoothed her hair, and rearranged herself generally,
awaited the victor in the verandah. She stood gazing seawards with
a haughty air of defiance, which still savoured of the fray. The light
of battle had not faded from her eye; a bright flush embellished with
rare and wondrous beauty the untinted marble of her delicate
features.
As she stood, unconsciously statuesque, and gazed half unheeding
in her rapt regard of the flying bark, the long-loved, fast-thronging,
magical glories of the evening ocean-pageant,

... the day was dying:

Sudden the sun shone forth; its beams were lying
Like boiling gold on ocean, strange to see;
And on the shattered vapours, which defying
The power of light in vain, tossed restlessly
In the red heaven like wrecks in a tempestuous sea.

‘It is you,’ she said, suddenly turning towards Ernest with a look of
praise and gratitude almost childlike in its absence of reserve. ‘How
can I, how will my father, ever thank you for this day’s deeds? I had
given up all for lost; that is, as far as that foolish Harriet was
concerned. They should have torn me limb from limb before they
should have placed us in their boat. Then I determined to fight for
Harriet, to—yes! I believe that is the word, for I really felt the real
fighting spirit all over—it is not such a very unpleasant sensation as
one would think. I was quite exaltée, and if I had had a revolver, I
think the Count would have paid forfeit with his life, whatever might
have come after. Papa would kill him now if they met.’
‘Is there no fear of such a meeting?’
‘None, thank Heaven!’ said Antonia, ‘though he deserves the worst in
the shape of punishment. Sydney has seen the last of him. Look!’
she cried, as every sail on the long, low, beautiful schooner filled as
if by magic, and the graceful craft, leaning to the full force of the
strong south wind, swept forth towards the sea-way.
‘He is safe from pursuit,’ she continued, ‘even if tidings could have
been sent at the instant. With this breeze behind him, there is
nothing in Sydney which would not be hull down behind the White
Falcon before day broke. Of course he will steer for one of the
northern ports, or else for the Islands. They must have had every
sail tied with spun-yarn, so as to be ready to unfurl at a moment’s
notice. To you alone, and to that brave Jack Windsor, it is due that
we are not miserable captives in yonder flying bark. I shudder to
think of it.’
‘I should have done little without John,’ said Mr. Neuchamp. ‘He
came up like Blücher at Waterloo, and I was as impatiently awaiting
his arrival as the Duke. Here—receive Miss Frankston’s thanks, John;
then, with her permission, you can go and ask the butler for some
beer. I daresay you feel equal to it.’
‘You have behaved this day, John Windsor, like a brave man and a
true Australian,’ said Antonia, giving her hand to Jack, which he
shook carefully and with much caution, relinquishing the dainty palm
with evident relief. ‘My father will know how to thank the rescuer of
his daughter; and she will remember you as a gallant fellow and a
friend in need all the days of her life.’
‘Thank you, miss,’ said Mr. Windsor, with a respectful yet puzzled air.
‘I’ve had many a worse shindy than this in my time, and got no
thanks either—’tother way on, ‘ndeed. But of course I couldn’t help
rolling in, seeing the master double-banked, and you young ladies
being made to join a water-party against your wills. Don’t you have
no more truck with them boats, miss; they’re too uncertain
altogether. Nothing like dry land to my taste; even if the season’s
bad, there’s a something to hang on by. My respects, miss, and I’ll
try that beer; my throat’s like a bark chimney with the soot afire.’
‘And now I must order you, Mr. Neuchamp, to betake yourself to
your room. Look in the glass and see if your complexion hasn’t
suffered. Was it the Count’s blood which flowed, or did you scratch
your face with the prickly pear hedge? Let me look! Merciful heaven!’
exclaimed the girl, with a half scream, as she narrowly scanned her
deliverer’s face; ‘why, there is the deep trace of a bullet on your
temple. How providential that it was the least bit wide—a slight turn
of your head—a shade nearer the temple, and you would have been
lying there dead—dead! How awful to think of!’
Here she covered her face with her hands. Tears trickled through the
slender palms as her overwrought feelings found relief in a sudden
burst of weeping.
Mr. Neuchamp’s attempts at consolation would appear not to have
been wholly ineffectual, if one may judge from the concluding
sentences of rather a long-whispered conversation, all carried on
prior to the lavation of his gory countenance.
‘I always thought,’ said Antonia, smiling through her tears, with as
much satirical emphasis as could coexist with so sudden an access of
happiness, ‘that you wanted some one to take care of you in
Australia. I fear I have been led into undertaking a very serious
responsibility.’
‘May it not be the other way?’ very naturally inquired Ernest. ‘If I
had not been, as Jack would say, “there or thereabouts” to-day,
some one might have been a pirate’s bride, after all. Miss Folleton,
of course, had prior claims, but——‘
‘But—please to go and render yourself presentable, this instant. We
shall have such an amount of talking to do before we can put poor
dear old pappy in possession of all the news. Good gracious, how
can we ever tell him? How furious he will be!’
‘Will he?’ inquired Ernest, with affected apprehension; ‘perhaps we
had better defer our——’
‘I don’t mean that—and you know it, sir; but, unless you wish to be
taken for a pirate yourself, or an escaped I-don’t-know-what, you
will do as I tell you.’
So Ernest was fain to do as he was bid, commencing, unconsciously
indeed, that period of servitude to which every son of Adam, all
unheeding, is pledged who rivets on himself the flower-wreathed
adamantine fetters of matrimony. He sought Mr. Frankston’s
extremely comfortable dressing-room, at the behest of his beloved
châtelaine; and very glad he was to find himself there.
His sense of relief and general congratulation was, however, slightly
alloyed by the thought of the stupendous amount of explanation and
narrative due to Paul Frankston, when this now fast-approaching
hour of dinner should arrive.
‘I would it were bedtime, and all well,’ groaned he, in old Falstaff’s
words, as he addressed himself to the rather serious duties of the
toilette.
Mr. Frankston arrived from town but a few minutes before the
dinner-hour, and, like a wise man, made at once for his room.
‘Only just time to dress, darling,’ said he to his daughter. ‘Got such a
budget of news; met Croker just as I was coming out, tell Ernest. No
end of news—quite unparalleled. You will be surprised, and so will
he.’
‘And so will you,’ thought Mr. Neuchamp, who just came into the hall
in time to hear the concluding sentence. But he darkly bided his
time.
As the dinner-bell rang, forth issued Mr. Frankston, radiant with
snowy waistcoat and renovated personnel, having the air at once of
a man in good hope and expectation of dinner, also conscious of the
possession of news which, however sensationally disastrous, does
not prejudicially affect himself.
‘Now then,’ he said, the soup having been disposed of, and the
mildly stimulating Amontillado imbibed, ‘what do you think has
become of our friend—or, rather, your friend, Antonia, for you never
would let me abuse him—the Count von Schätterheims?’
‘What indeed?’ replied Antonia, looking at her plate.
‘Well, he has bolted, levanted, cleared out, on board his famous
yacht, the White Falcon, for some northern port—Batavia, the
Islands, New Guinea—no one knows.’
‘How about money matters?’ inquired Ernest.
‘Well, you both take it coolly, I must say,’ said Paul, hurt at the small
effect of his great piece of ordnance. ‘As to money, all Sydney, in the
legitimate credit way, is left lamenting. He had been operating very
largely of late, and his losses and defalcations are immense. Yorick
and Co.’s bill for wines and liqueurs is something awful.’
‘Alas, poor Yorick!’ said Ernest, with so pathetic an emphasis that
Antonia could not help laughing.
‘You two seem very facetious to-night,’ quoth Paul with dignity. ‘It is
no laughing matter, I can tell you. But you won’t laugh at this, I
fancy. Croker told me that it was everywhere believed that he had
persuaded that unhappy, infatuated girl Harriet Folleton to
accompany him in his flight.’
Mr. Frankston uttered these last words with a deep solemnity,
imparted to his voice by the heartfelt pity which, at any time, he
could have felt for the victim in such a case.
His daughter and Ernest were sufficiently ill-bred to laugh.
‘Hang me if I understand this!’ he commenced, in tones of righteous
indignation; and then, softening, ‘Why Antonia, dearest, surely you
must pity——’
‘Papa, she is upstairs and in bed at this very moment, so she can’t
have run away with the Count. There must be a mistake
somewhere.’
‘So there must, so there must,’ said Paul, instantly mollified, and
addressing himself to his dinner. ‘I’m a hot-tempered old idiot, I
know. But there’s no mistake about the Count’s debts, or the Count’s
flight. He was sighted by No. 4 pilot cutter that brought in the
English liner, the Cumberland, this evening, steering nor’-nor’-east,
and before such a breeze as will see him clear of anything from this
port before daylight.’
‘He has gone, safe enough,’ said Ernest; ‘indeed, we watched him go
through the Heads from the verandah—a most fortunate migration,
in my opinion. He has conferred an immense benefit upon the
country by leaving it, which I trust he will confirm by never
returning.’
‘Then you saw him go from here?’ inquired Mr. Frankston. ‘Was he
close enough for you to see him?’
‘Well,’ admitted Ernest, ‘he certainly was close enough to see, and,
indeed, to feel; but it’s rather a long story, and if you’re going to
smoke this evening, we can have it all out on the verandah.’
‘I think I must go and see how my visitor is getting on,’ said Antonia;
‘and as I feel tired, I will make my farewell for the evening.’
Was there in the outwardly formal handshaking a sudden instinctive
pressure? Was there in the hasty glance a lighting up of hitherto
lambent fires in the clear depths of Antonia’s deep-hued eyes—an
added, half-remorseful, half-clinging tenderness in the never-omitted
caress which marked her evening parting with her father? If so, that
father was all unconscious, and the outward tokens were so faint as
to have been invisible to all but one deeply interested, near-sighted
observer.
‘I am much relieved to find that poor girl Harriet Folleton has not
been carried off, after all, by that scoundrel, who has taken us all in
so splendidly,’ growled Paul. ‘Of course, now the mischief is done, all
kinds of reports are going about the city as to his real character.
People say he was a valet, or a courier; others, a supercargo, who
ran away with that pretty boat he brought here. He certainly had a
very good notion of handling a yacht.’
‘Let me tell you, then, that it is chiefly owing to your daughter’s
courage and unselfish determination to save her friend at all
hazards, that Harriet Folleton is not now a captive in yonder yacht,
hopelessly lost and disgraced,’ announced Mr. Neuchamp,
commencing his broadside.
‘Why, you don’t tell me that the scoundrel came here and attempted
any violence?’ said the old man, rising excitedly and performing the
regulation quarter-deck walk up and down the verandah, while he
dashed his ignited cigar excitedly out over the lawn. ‘If I knew—if I
had known this day that he dared to set his foot upon these grounds
with a lawless purpose towards any guest of Antonia’s, I’d have
followed him to the Line and hanged him at his own yardarm.’
As the old man uttered these very decided sentiments, somewhat at
variance with the Navigation Act and international usage, his brow
darkened, his eye gleamed with pitiless light, and his arm was raised
with a gesture which indicated familiarity with the cutlass and the
boarding-pike.
‘You must not excite yourself,’ said Ernest, laying his hand kindly on
the old man’s arm. ‘Remember, first of all, that the offender is
beyond pursuit; that he was baulked in his evil purpose, and that he
suffered ignominious defeat, chiefly through the timely help of Jack
Windsor, who assisted me to rout the attacking force.’
‘Good God!’ exclaimed the old man. ‘Attack—defeat; what has
happened? and I sat gossiping at the club, while you were defending
my home and my honour!’
‘Could I do less? However, you had better hear the whole story
straight out. No harm has been done, and the enemy was routed
with loss.’
The story was told. Full justice was done to Antonia’s heroism. Jack
Windsor’s prowess received its meed of praise. His own fortunate
overthrow of the Count by good luck and a little more practice in
wrestling than continental usages render familiar, was slightly
alluded to. Finally, he explained his reasons for assisting the escape
of Von Schätterheims, and thereby confining the scandal of his
attempted abduction to the narrow limit of the actual participators in
the affray.
Mr. Frankston walked the deck of a long-departed imaginary vessel
so long without speaking that Ernest feared some rending typhoon
of wrath after the enforced calm. But the event justified his best
surmises. Placing his hand upon his guest’s arm, Paul said, in a voice
vibrating with emotion—
‘I see in you, Ernest Neuchamp, a man who this day has saved my
honour and my life—hers, to whom this poor remnant of existence is
but as this worthless weed.’ (Here he cast from him the half-
consumed cigar.) ‘From this day forth you are my son—take
everything that I can give. Paul Frankston holds nothing back from
the man who has done what you have done this day. I am but your
steward—your manager, my dear boy, henceforward.’
‘There is one of your possessions—the most precious, the most
priceless among them,’ answered Ernest, holding up his head with a
do-or-die sort of air, ‘and that one I now ask of you. We are past
phrases with each other. But you will understand that I at least do
not undervalue the worth of Antonia Frankston’s heart, of your
daughter’s hand!’
Mr. Frankston once more paced the long-faded deck and communed
with the broad and heaving deep. Then he turned. His eyes, from
which the strange fire had faded wholly out, had a softened,
perhaps somewhat clouded light.
‘Ernest Neuchamp,’ he said, ‘if this day has witnessed, perhaps, the
most bitter insult, the deepest humiliation to which Paul Frankston
has ever been subjected, it has also witnessed his greatest joy. Take
her—with her old father’s blessing. You have, what he considers,
earth’s greatest treasure; and it is no flattery, but honest liking,
when he swears that you are worthy of her. As far as human look-
out can see over life’s course, Paul Frankston’s troubles and anxieties
are over. Now I can take my cigar again.’
More than one cigar was needed to allay the old man’s overstrained
nervous system. Long they sat and talked, and saw the moon rise
higher in the star-gemmed sky, casting a broader silver flame across
the tremulous illumined deep; while between Ernest Neuchamp and
the old man again stood a shadowy, diaphanous, divinely-moulded
form, turning into an elysian aroma the scent of Paul’s cigars, and
echoing the secret gladness of each thought, which in that hour of
supernal loveliness and unutterable joy flowed from the bared heart
of Ernest Neuchamp.

On the next morning Aurora in person must have attended to the

proper arrangement of the dawn, the breakfast-hour, and other
small matters which, apparently trivial, tend unquestionably to that
due equilibrium of the nervous system, without which comfort is
impossible and exhilaration hopeless.
Thus, Miss Folleton, having slept well, appeared renovated and just
becomingly repentant. Antonia was severely happy, Mr. Neuchamp
calmly superior to fate, and Mr. Frankston so hilarious that his
daughter had to interpose more than once.
That ambrosial repast concluded, Antonia departed for town in the
carriage, and straightway delivered up Miss Folleton to her rejoicing
relatives, who had suffered anxiety in her absence. Hers was an
impressionable, shallow nature, recovering easily from moral risks
and disasters—even from physical ills. Her appetite reasserted itself;
her love of life’s frivolities, temporarily obscured, brightened afresh;
and long before the legend of the debts, the daring, the
disappearance of the Count von Schätterheims had been supplanted
by newer scandal, her cheek had recovered its wonted bloom, her
step its lightness in the dance, and her mien its touchingly
dependent grace.
In due time she had her reward; for she captured, after a short but
brilliant campaign, consisting of an oratorio, a lawn party, and three
dances, an immensely opulent northern squatter. She looks fair and
pure as the blue sky above her, as she rolls by, dressed à merveille,
in the best-appointed carriage in Sydney. But for happiness—who
shall say?
In the meanwhile, unlimited pleasure-seeking and universal
admiration supply a reasonable substitute.
 CHAPTER XXX
Mr. Neuchamp, having now occasional leisure to reflect, discovered
that he was provided with an extensive and valuable property which
he had partly come to Australia to seek, and with an affianced bride,
whom he had not at all included among his probable possessions. As
for the great project of Colonial Reform, which had stood out grandly
dominating the landscape in the future of his dreams, with the
solitary exception of the conversion of Jack Windsor, he could not
aver that he had accomplished anything.
His co-operative community had notably failed in practice. But for
the aid and counsel of Mr. Levison, it might have overthrown his own
fortune, without particularly benefiting the individuals of this society.
Whenever he had acted upon his own discretion, and in furtherance
of advanced views, he had been conspicuously wrong. Where he had
followed the ideas of others, or been forced into them by
circumstances, he had been invariably right. Where he had been
generous, he had been deceived; where he had been cautious, he
had found himself extravagant in loss; where he had been rash,
riches had rolled in upon him with flowing tide. His most elaborate
estimates of character had been ludicrously erroneous. His advice
had been inapplicable, his theories unsound. Practice—mostly
blindfold—had alone given him a glimmering knowledge of the
relatively component parts of this most contradictory, unintelligible
antipodean world.
Mr. Neuchamp, having reached the very visible landmark of an
engagement in his pilgrimage of love, was much minded to press for
an immediate union, believing, now that the rain had come, there
existed no rational impediments in the way of this last supreme
success. Well-informed persons will know that no such outrage upon
les convenances could for a moment be tolerated. Baffled but not
despondent, he returned to the charge with such determination that
the event was fixed to take place in about two months, as being the
earliest hour anything so dreadful could be thought of.
So much being gained, Ernest became speedily aware that being at
all hours and seasons subject to the raids of milliners‘attendants and
others was a state of existence out of harmony with a poet’s soul.
Thus, after divers unsatisfactory and interrupted interviews with
Antonia, he took his passage by the mail, and heroically started for
Rainbar.
This brilliant combination of business with necessity would, he
thought, serve to while away the weary hours between the scorned
present and the beautiful future. Rainbar and Mildool had to be
visited at some time or other. Although the luxurious life of the
metropolis had gained upon him, Ernest Neuchamp always arose,
Antæus-like, fresh to the call of duty.
When he quitted the railway terminus and entered the mail-coach
which was to convey him to his destination, the full magnitude of the
mighty change of season burst upon him. During his stay in Sydney
the short, bright southern spring-time had been born and was
ripening into summer, with what effect upon plant life it was now a
marvel of marvels to see.
Mr. Neuchamp’s novitiate had been served during the latter years of
a ‘dry cycle.’ He had seen fair growth of pasture towards Christmas
time, but of the amazing crop of grass and herbage uncared for,
wasted, or burned, in what Mr. Windsor called ‘an out-and-out wet
season,’ he had no previous experience.
From the moment that the coach cleared the forest parks which
skirted the plains, Ernest found himself embarked upon a
‘measureless prairie,’ where the tall green grass waved far as eye
could see in the summer breeze. A millennium of peace and plenty
had apparently arrived for all manner of graminivorous creatures.
How different was the aspect of these ‘happy hunting grounds,’
velvet-green of hue, flower-bespangled, brook-traversed, with the
forgotten sound of falling waters ever and anon breaking on the ear,
with hum of bee and carol blithe of bird, as the sleek-coated, high-
conditioned coach-horses rattled the light drag merrily over the long
long road! What a wondrous transformation! Would Augusta, la belle
cousine, have believed that all this glorious natural beauty had been
born, grown, and developed ‘since the rain came’?
When at length the journey was over, and the proprietor of Rainbar
and Mildool was deposited, with his portmanteau, at the garden gate
of the former station, Mr. Neuchamp was constrained to confess that
he hardly knew his own place. There had been much growth and
greenery when he left with the fat cattle; but the riotous
extravagance of nature in that direction could not have been
credited by him without actual eye-witness.
Around the buildings, the garden fence, the stockyard, the cowshed,
was a growth of giant herbage, composed of wild oats, wild barley,
marsh-mallows, clover, and fodder plants unnamed, that almost
smothered these humble buildings and enclosures. A few milch cows
fed lazily, looking as if they had been employed in testing the
comparative merits of oilcake and Thorley’s cattle-food, for an
agricultural experiment. The river-flats below the house were knee-
deep in clover and meadow grasses, causing Mr. Neuchamp to
wonder whether or no it would be worth while to go in for a
mowing-machine and a few horse-rakes, for the easy conversion of a
fraction of it into a few hundred tons of meadow hay, to be stored
against the next, ‘dry year.’ The mixed grasses, as he had tested in a
small way, made excellent hay. But how far off looked such a
calamity! Thus ever with ‘youth at the prow and pleasure at the
helm’ do we lightly measure the future, recking neither of stormy sky
nor of the ravening deep.
After Mr. Neuchamp had sufficiently admired the grassy wilderness,
thoughts arose respecting dinner, and also a feeling of wonder
where everybody was. The station appeared to be minding itself.
The cook was absent, though recent indications of his presence were
visible in the kitchen. Charley Banks was away and Jack Windsor,
probably at Mildool; also Piambook, whose open countenance and
dazzling teeth would have been better than nothing. Where was Mrs.
Windsor, née Walton? He had rather looked forward to having a talk
with her under new conditions of life. She could not be at Mildool, as
there was no shelter for a decent woman there. What in the name of
wonder had become of them all? There were no Indians in this
country, or he might have turned his thoughts in the direction of
Blackfeet or Comanches, the ‘wolf Apaché and the cannibal Navajo.’
Not even a Mormon settlement handy enough to organise a
‘mountain-meadows massacre’! He never thought Rainbar so lonely
before. He went into the cottage, and in a leisurely way unpacked
his portmanteau in the snug bedroom which he had so long
inhabited—where he had so often, before the rain came, lain down
in sorrow and arisen in despair. What a tiny wooden box it seemed!
Yet he had thought it comfortable, even luxurious. Like those of
many other distinguished travellers and heroes long absent from the
scene of early conflict or youthful habitation, the eyes of Mr.
Neuchamp had altered their focus.
After three months’ familiarity with the lodging of clubs and villas,
the neat but necessarily contracted apartments of his bush cottage
appeared like cupboards, or even akin to a watch-box which he had
once dwelt in at Garrandilla.
However, he knew by former experience that a week or two of
station life would restore his vision, his appetite, and his
contentment with the district. Further than that he did not go. At the
present price of cattle, it was not likely that he would need ever
again to spend as many months consecutively at Rainbar as he had
devoted to that desirable but isolated abode before the ‘drought
broke up.’
Having had ample time for comparison and appropriate reflections,
he was at length set free from the apprehension that he was the
sole inhabitant of Rainbar by the appearance of old Johnny, the
cook, who expressed great delight and satisfaction at seeing him,
and, explaining his absence by the statement that he had taken a
walk of five miles down the river in order to buy a bag of potatoes
from a dray loaded with those rare esculents, proceeded to place
him in possession of facts.
‘Every one about the place was away mustering at Mildool,’ he said,
‘including Mr. Banks, both the blackfellows, Jack Windsor, and even
Mrs. Windsor, who, finding that there was an unoccupied hut
formerly belonging to a dairyman at Mildool, had joined the
mustering party. He (Johnny) hadn’t had a soul to talk to for three
weeks since the muster began, and was as miserable as a
bandicoot.’
The old man bustled about, laid the cloth neatly, and cooked and
served an inviting meal, which Ernest, after the reckless preparations
supplied to coach passengers, really enjoyed. It was far into the
night when the sound of horses‘hoofs was heard, and Mr. Banks,
carrying his saddle and bridle, which he placed upon the verandah,
let go his courser to graze at ease, entered the spare bedroom,
undressed, and was in bed and asleep all in the space of about two
minutes and a half, as it seemed to Mr. Neuchamp, from the first
sound of his arrival. He did not care to make himself known to the
wearied youngster, and reserved that sensation, very wisely, as
might be many other pieces of news and matters of business, until
morning light.
With the new day arising, the active youth was much astonished,
and even more gratified, to find his employer again under the same
roof. At the daylight breakfast of the bush—de rigueur when unusual
work of any kind is going forward—he favoured Ernest with a full
recital of all the exciting news.
‘Everything was well as could possibly be. All the cattle at Rainbar
were fat as pigs—all the “circle dot” cattle, all Freemans‘lot, which
had really turned out a famous bargain. A dealer from Ballarat had
been up a week since, and to him he had sold the whole of the
Freeman horses at fifteen pounds a head, cash, young and old. He
didn’t think, when old Cottonbush put the brand on them, that
they’d ever see a ten-pound note for the whole boiling. He had the
dealer’s cheque—a good one too, or he wouldn’t have taken it—for
twelve hundred and fifteen pounds! There were just eighty-one
head.
‘As for the back country, it looked lovely. Grass and water
everywhere. The Back Lake was full; the river was bank high, and if
there was a flood—a regular big one—he wouldn’t say but what the
water might flow into the canal after all and fill the Outer Lake. By
the way, there were some back blocks for sale at the back of Rainbar
and Mildool, and if he had his way they should be bought, as it
would give them the command of all the back country as far as
Barra Creek, and keep other people from coming in by and by, and
perhaps giving trouble; nothing like securing all your back country
while it is cheap.
‘With regard to Mildool, it was the best bargain he (Charley Banks)
had ever seen. All unbranded stock were to be given in, and there
would be calves and yearlings enough to brand to pay two years’
wages to every man employed on both runs. They had pretty well
got through the count; there would be a two or three hundred head
over the muster number, which would be no harm, and it was only
ordinary store price for half fat cattle broken in to the run. As to fat
stock, you might go on to any camp and cut out with your eyes
shut; you couldn’t go wrong; they were all fat together, young and
old. Mooney, the dealer, stayed a night last week, and said he would
give seven pounds all round for a thousand head, half cows, to be
taken in three months. He thought it was a fair offer. It saved all the
bother of sending men on the roads, and when you let the mob out
of your yard you get your cheque, or draft, as the case might be. He
was always for selling on the run, as long as the buyers were known
men.‘
‘How was Mrs. Windsor?’
‘Oh, she was a brick—a regular trump—something like a woman!
When she found Jack would only come back from Mildool once a
week, she inquired whether there was any sort of a hut that could
hold a small family at Mildool; was told there was the old dairyman’s
hut at Green Bend, about a mile from the station. So she said she
would rather live in a packing-case than be separated from her
husband; and as Mildool was to be their home, they might as well go
there at once. The end of it was that she made Jack take her traps
over, and she has got the old place so neat and comfortable that any
one might live there, small as it is, and enjoy life. She was a
downright sensible woman, as well as a deuced good-looking one,
and she would make Jack a rich man before he died.’
‘Was there anything else to tell?’
‘Well, not much. He was going to let Jack have Boinmaroo at
Mildool, and keep Piambook here; when they mustered at either
place they could join forces. Oh! the Freemans. Well, they had all
gone a month back. Joe and Bill had gone to take up more land in
the Albury district. Wish them joy wherever they go. We’re quit of
them, that’s one comfort. Abraham Freeman and his lot cleared out
for his old place at Bowning. They’ll do well there in a quiet way.
Poor Tottie was sorry to leave Rainbar, and cried like fun. Had to
comfort her a bit when the old woman wasn’t looking. It’s a beastly
nuisance having other people’s stock on your run, and other people’s
boys galloping about all over the country, whether you like it or not.
Was deuced glad to see their teams yoked and their furniture on, I
can tell you. Suppose you’d like to ride over to Mildool, now you are
here?’
Mr. Neuchamp thought he might as well, although fully satisfied that
the muster would have been satisfactorily completed without him.
So the two men rode over that day and had a look at the humours
of a delivery muster.
There was, as usual, great skirmishing about the ownership of calves
temporarily separated from their maternal parents, one stockman