 | Pennsylvania. Laws, statutes, etc - 1860 - 994 pages
...TITLE VI. Offences against the Persons of Individuals. Mnrder. SECTION 74. All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait,...killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first... | |
 | New York (State) - 1860 - 1206 pages
...the State of New York. Murder"',!1' S 2> All murder which shall be perpetrated by means nr.t degree of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of Itreor*on1<" willful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration... | |
 | India, Sir Walter Morgan, Arthur George Macpherson - 1861 - 544 pages
...circumstances as show no specific intention to kill, than when it is perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing. But the Courts in awarding punishment for murder (see Section 302) are enabled to distinguish between... | |
 | Charles Edwin Wilbour - 1862 - 252 pages
...the Legislature subdivided murder into two degrees, and declared that ', all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait,...or which shall be committed in the perpetration, or the attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, or in any attempt to escape from... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1864 - 622 pages
...first degree, shall be punishable with death in the state of New York. § 2. 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 the... | |
 | Michigan State Prison - 1878 - 1224 pages
...August 31, 1838. Pennsylvania, by an act of April 22, 1794, had enacted that "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... | |
 | Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer, New Jersey - 1868 - 1198 pages
...as aforesaid, on conviction, shall be adjudged to be gnilty of murder. 4. All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait,...premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in perpetrating, or attempting to perpetrate, any arson, rape, sodomy, robbery, or burglary, shall be... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Courts, John Wayne Ashmead - 1871 - 572 pages
...that crime in the first degree, be a "willful " killing. "All murder," says the act, "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... | |
 | Missouri. Supreme Court - 1871 - 906 pages
...find a verdict for manslaughter. Our statute divides murder into two degrees — first, when committed 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... | |
 | Amasa Junius Parker - 1872 - 720 pages
...14, the legislature subdivided murder into two degrees, and declared that " all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willfal, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which shall be commitJefferds v. The People. ted... | |
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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... 
