Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown, 1. köideR.H. Small, 1847 - 1396 pages |
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... committed by youths above fourteen and under twenty - one ; and if they should have impunity by the privilege of such their minority , no man's life or estate could be safe . ( t ) In my remembrance at Thetford a young lad of sixteen ...
... committed by youths above fourteen and under twenty - one ; and if they should have impunity by the privilege of such their minority , no man's life or estate could be safe . ( t ) In my remembrance at Thetford a young lad of sixteen ...
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... committed . By the law as it now stands , and has stood at least since the time of Edward the Third , the capacity of doing ill , or contracting guilt , is not so much mea . sured by years and days , as by the strength of the ...
... committed . By the law as it now stands , and has stood at least since the time of Edward the Third , the capacity of doing ill , or contracting guilt , is not so much mea . sured by years and days , as by the strength of the ...
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... commit a felony , in this case prima facie he is to be judged not guilty , and to be found so , because he is supposed ... committed . 2. The circumstances must be inquired of by the jury , and the infant is not to be convicted upon his ...
... commit a felony , in this case prima facie he is to be judged not guilty , and to be found so , because he is supposed ... committed . 2. The circumstances must be inquired of by the jury , and the infant is not to be convicted upon his ...
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... commit a felony be indicted by the grand inquest , and thereupon arraigned , the petit jury may either find him generally not guilty , or they may find the matter specially , that he committed the fact , but that he was non compos , or ...
... commit a felony be indicted by the grand inquest , and thereupon arraigned , the petit jury may either find him generally not guilty , or they may find the matter specially , that he committed the fact , but that he was non compos , or ...
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... committed by them in such their distem- pers are under the same judgment as those whereof we have before spoken , namely , according to the measure or degree of their distem- per ; the person that is absolutely mad for a day , killing a ...
... committed by them in such their distem- pers are under the same judgment as those whereof we have before spoken , namely , according to the measure or degree of their distem- per ; the person that is absolutely mad for a day , killing a ...
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Page 328 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page 13 - And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Page 439 - No crime, whatsoever, hereafter committed, (except murder in the first degree,) shall be punished with death in the state of Pennsylvania. — .]</ 22d April, 1794, 3 Smith'! Lawi, 136; 1th ed. Pardon, 861. AH 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 or b'urglary, shall be deemed murder of the first...
Page 90 - Treason against the State shall consist only in levying war against it, or in adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
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Page 454 - State, our law regarding that there were cases that did not fall within this definition that might be murder in the first degree, passed an Act of Assembly, which reads in part as follows : "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 of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, s'hall be deemed murder of the first degree, and...
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Page 192 - The United States in congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states..
Page 439 - ... all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree ; and the jury before whom any person indicted for murder shall be tried, shall, if they find such person guilty thereof, ascertain in their verdict whether it be murder of the first or second degree...