That all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery... The Northeastern Reporter - Pàgina 1801890Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 1804 - 456 pàgines
...is punished with death, and is the only capital crime now known to the laws of Pennsylvania. Murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or committed in the. perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate,... | |
| William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 pàgines
...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,... | |
| 1824 - 288 pàgines
...death in all cases, except murder in the first degree, by which is declared to be meant "all murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing; or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt... | |
| 1824 - 296 pàgines
...death in all cases, except murder in the first degree, by which is declared to be meant "all murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing; or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt... | |
| Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - 1826 - 722 pàgines
...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... | |
| 1843 - 516 pàgines
...contains provisions relating to murder and sundry other offences of an aggravated character. All murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or committed in perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate... | |
| Samuel Hazard - 1831 - 438 pàgines
...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 - 1831 - 444 pàgines
...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... | |
| 1835 - 510 pàgines
...each other in their atrocity that it is unjust to involve them in the same punishment, enacts, ' that all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of...poison or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt... | |
| Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Isaac Wharton - 1836 - 580 pàgines
...to be indispensably necessary under the act of the 22d of April, 1794. That act places all murder, " perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration, or attempt... | |
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