 | James Wilson - 1895 - 642 pages
...alone 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...of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or committed in the perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary is deemed... | |
 | John Gardner Hawley, Malcolm McGregor - 1896 - 350 pages
...How. St., 9075, 907G): "All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, or 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, shall be deemed murder of the first... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - 1898 - 738 pages
...UEPAHTMEKT, MARCH TEBM, 1898. In New Jersey, where the Crimes Act provides that " All murder that 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 perpetrating, or attempting... | |
 | Michigan State Prison - 1879 - 310 pages
...August 31, 1838. Pennsylvania, by an act of April 22, 1794, had enacted that "all murder Avhich 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... | |
 | 1899 - 848 pages
...of the scales goes down. The illustrations that precede in most statutes the descriptive words are " by means of poison or by lying in wait or by any other..." of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing. To confuse the taking of human life in this state of mind with the infliction of a mortal hurt under... | |
 | 1899 - 1252 pages
...this case was legal. The language of the statute strongly favors such a construction. It provides that murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, shall be murder in the first degree; thereby implying... | |
 | William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall - 1900 - 702 pages
...statute was Pennsylvania. By the act of March 31, 1860, it was provided that all murder which should be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which should be committed in the perpetration of,... | |
 | 1900 - 1164 pages
...shall be perpetrated by means of poison or lying In wait or torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, of burglary, shall be deemed murder In the... | |
 | 1901 - 1300 pages
...peace of tlie state, with malice aforethought, either express or implied." "All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration... | |
 | Idaho - 1901 - 620 pages
...4863. Degrees of Murder: All murder which is perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, torture, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which is committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate arson, rape, robbery, burglary or mayhem,... | |
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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... 
