In every charge of murder, the fact of killing being first proved, all the circumstances of accident, necessity, or infirmity, are to be satisfactorily proved by the prisoner, unless they arise out of the evidence produced against him ; for the law presumeth... The Southeastern Reporter - Page 4451906Full view - About this book
| Law - 1871 - 874 pages
...on the defendant to disprove the intent. Thus, in cases of murder, " the fact of killing being first proved, all the circumstances of accident, necessity,...the prisoner, unless they arise out of the evidence proved against him ; for the law presumeth the fact to have been founded in malice until the contrary... | |
| Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 808 pages
...language, with this qualification added, that all the Dixon vs. The State of Florida — Opinion of Court. circumstances of accident, necessity, or infirmity,...they arise out of the evidence produced against him." The latter is a very important qualification, and is the language of the Supreme Court in the case... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 670 pages
...proved, all the circumstances of accident, necessity, or infirmity are to ba satisfactorily proved bv the prisoner, unless they arise out of the evidence produced against him ; for the law presumeth the act to have be- n founded in malice, until the contrary appeareth, and very right it... | |
| Criminal law - 1872 - 954 pages
...introduction to his discourse on homicide : " In every charge of murder, the fact of Tfilling being first proved, all the circumstances of accident, necessity,...the prisoner, unless they arise out of the evidence against him ; for the law presumeth the fact to have been founded in malice, until the contrary appeareth."... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 736 pages
...amounting1, in point of law, to murder; and in every charge of murder, the Tact of killing being first proved, all the circumstances of accident, necessity,...they arise out of the evidence produced against him. I think I can say without vanity, that however defective in knowledge I may be on other subjects, I... | |
| Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 612 pages
...worthy of notice. " In every charge of State v. Patterson. murder, the fact of killing being first proved, all the circumstances of accident, necessity, or infirmity are to be satisfactorily proved hy the prisoner, unless they arise out of the evidence adduced fiffitinxt him, for the law presumeth... | |
| L. B. Horrigan, Seymour Dwight Thompson - Self-defense (Law) - 1874 - 1132 pages
...Foster's Crown Law, 255, it is said : '* In every charge of murder, the fact of killing being first proved, all the circumstances of accident, necessity...of the evidence produced against him, for the law presumeth the fact to have been founded in malice, until th& contrary appeareth, and very right it... | |
| Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 738 pages
...Gladden vs. the State, 13 ib., 623, and Dixon vs. the State, ib., 637, it is laid down that the killing being proved, all the circumstances of accident, necessity...prisoner, unless they arise out of the evidence produced by the prosecution. The instruction given limits the defence to the facts which he shall be able to... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 820 pages
...Foster's Crown Law, 255, is worthy of notice. " In every charge of murder, the fact of killing being first proved, all the circumstances of accident, necessity...the prisoner, unless they arise out of the evidence adduced against him, for the law presumeth the fact to have been founded in malice, until the contrary... | |
| Francis Wharton - Criminal law - 1874 - 834 pages
...implication of malice arises in every case of intentional homicide ; and the fact of killing being first proved, all the circumstances of accident, necessity, or infirmity are to be satisfactorily established by the party charged, unless they arise out of the evidence produced against him to prove... | |
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