The Penal Code of Pennsylvania, 2. köideR. Welsh & Company, 1884 |
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Page 708 - ... person was insane at the time of the commission of such offence, and such person shall be acquitted, the jury shall be required to find specially whether such person was insane at the time of the commission of such offence, and to declare whether such person was acquitted by them on account of such insanity...
Page 631 - In any indictment for murder or manslaughter, or for being an accessory to any murder or manslaughter, it shall not be necessary to set forth the manner in which, or the means by which, the death of the deceased was caused, but it shall be sufficient in any indictment for murder to charge that the defendant did feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, kill and murder the deceased, and it shall be sufficient in any indictment for manslaughter to charge that the defendant did feloniously...
Page 724 - in all cases where a remedy is provided, or duty enjoined, or anything directed to be done by any act or acts of assembly of this commonwealth, the directions of the said acts shall be strictly pursued...
Page 742 - If any person guilty of or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor, in any state,' shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the governor or executive power of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the state having jurisdiction of his offence.
Page 733 - Any one of the judges of the said thirty-eighth judicial district shall have full power and authority to hold the courts of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery and quarter sessions of the peace...
Page 673 - ... and thereupon such person shall be liable to be punished in the same manner as if he had been convicted upon an indictment for...
Page 669 - ... common law or by virtue of any Statute or Statutes made or to be made, the person so counselling, procuring, or commanding, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and may be indicted and convicted either as an accessory before the fact...
Page 708 - ... to be kept in strict custody in such place and in such manner as to the court shall seem fit, until his Majesty's pleasure shall be known...
Page 744 - ... recognizance to appear, or other court having jurisdiction of the cause; and if any other person or persons shall knowingly contrary to this act recommit or imprison, or knowingly procure or cause to be recommitted or imprisoned, for the same offence or...
Page 866 - To make one criminal act evidence of another, a connection between them must have existed in the mind of the actor, linking them together for some purpose he intended to accomplish; or it must be necessary to identify the person of the actor, by a connection which shows that he who committed the one must have done the other.