 Pennsylvania, all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape,...  Trial of Charles M. Jefferds for Murder, at New York, December 1861 - Page 222by Charles Edwin Wilbour - 1862 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Waller Hening - Forms (Law) - 1810 - 710 pages
...sect. 31. Under the penitentiary system of Virginia, the two degrees of murder are thus defined : " All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by duress of imprisonment or confinement, or by starving, or by wilful, malicious, and excessive whipping,... | |
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - Courts - 1826 - 722 pages
...preamble, fully justifies this commentary. Let us examine it minutely. It enacts that, "all murder'which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, &c. shall henceforth be deemed murder in the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1831 - 438 pages
...excluding murder in Ihejirst degree. In Pennsylvania, no crime is punishable with death, but murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by some other kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or perpetrated in the commission of... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1831 - 444 pages
...excluding murder in the first degree. In Pennsylvania, no crime is punishable with death, but murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by some other kind of wilful, deliberate, »nd premeditated killing, or perpetrated in the commission... | |
 | Joseph Tate - Law - 1841 - 992 pages
...directed by act of assembly to be so punished. Dec. 15, 1796— Mar. 25, 1800, R. С. с. 200. 2. § 2. All murder, which shall be perpetrated by means of poison,* or by lying in wait, t or by duress of imprisonment or confinement, or by starving, or by wilful, malicious and excessive... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 860 pages
...conspicuous; and the Pennsylvania and some of the Tennessee decisions show scarcely less light. Not only is all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or which shall be cdmmit58 Bivens vs. The State. [Joi-Y ted in the perpetration, or in the attempt to... | |
 | Dueling - 1846 - 110 pages
...prosecution, ¡ MEDITATED KILLING, shall henceforth be deemed ment ; Be it enacted, that all murder, that shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by duress of imprisonment, or confinement, or by starving ; or by wilf could surprise and shock you, with... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 784 pages
...labour, for any term, not less than five, Dor more than twenty years. — Sec. 2. IN VIRGINIA. — duress of imprisonment or confinement, or by starving, or by wilful, malicious and excessive whipping,... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...discretion of the court trying the same. — 11' r. Stal. part 4. tit. 1. c/i. 3. sect. 1. In MARYLAND.— All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying wait, or by any kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - United States - 1850 - 1008 pages
...liable to secondary punishment only. In Pennsylvania no crime is punishable with death, but murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by some other kind of wilful, deliberative, and premeditated killing, or perpetrated in the commission... | |
| |
