 | William Ephraim Mikell - 1908 - 638 pages
...See, also, cases in chapter IV. SECTION 3.— STATUTORY DEGREES OF MURDER. 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 of, or... | |
 | 1909 - 1182 pages
...second degree. State v. Slatthews, supra. And under a statute providing that 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 the attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of... | |
 | 1922 - 1620 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...kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, shall be murder in the first degree; thereby implying that in all cases the crime must be the result... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - 1905 - 480 pages
...The Pennsylvania Statute of April 22, 1794 (3 Sm. L., 187), provides that: 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... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1874 - 566 pages
...unjust to involve them in the same punishment," etc. It thus enacts : " That murders 99] which shall be *perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of deliberate, willful and premeditated killing ; or which shall be committed in the perpetration, or... | |
 | Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins - 1989 - 220 pages
...First-degree murder included: (1) premeditated and deliberate homicide ("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"); and (2) homicides occurring in the course of or in... | |
 | 1887 - 958 pages
...based on the sixty-eighth section of the crimes act, which declares 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... | |
 | 1891 - 1286 pages
...murders which Khali be perpetrated by means of poison or lying in wait, or any other means of unlawful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration of any arson, rnpe, robbery, or burjjlary, shall be deemed murder in the first degree. All other murders... | |
 | Lawrence M. Friedman - 1994 - 590 pages
...introduced an important innovation. This law divided murder into "degrees." Murder in the first degree ("perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate, or premeditated killing, or ... committed in the perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson,... | |
 | Jeffrey Burton - 1997 - 340 pages
...under which the crime of murder was divided into two categories. Murder "of the first degree" took in all murder "perpetrated by means of poison or by lying...killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration of or an attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery or burglary" and carried the death penalty.... | |
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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... 
