 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 1804 - 456 pages
...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 in wait,...of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or committed in the. perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, is... | |
 | William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 pages
...sect. 31. Under the penitentiary system of Virginia, the two degrees of murder are thus defined : " All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by duress of imprisonment or confinement, or by starving, or by wilful, malicious, and excessive whipping,... | |
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - 1826 - 722 pages
...preamble, fully justifies this commentary. Let us examine it minutely. It enacts that, "all murder'which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, &c. shall henceforth be deemed murder in the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed... | |
 | 1843 - 516 pages
...contains provisions relating to murder and sundry other offences of an aggravated character. All murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait,...of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or committed in perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate arson, rape, sodomy, robbery or burglary, shall... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1831 - 444 pages
...excluding murder in the first degree. In Pennsylvania, no crime is punishable with death, but murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by some other kind of wilful, deliberate, »nd premeditated killing, or perpetrated in the commission... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1831 - 438 pages
...excluding murder in Ihejirst degree. In Pennsylvania, no crime is punishable with death, but murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by some other kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or perpetrated in the commission of... | |
 | Francis Patrick Kenrick - 1841 - 432 pages
...(I) Gen. ix. 3. (à) Ibidem, ¡v. 10. (3) Ibidem, ix. 6. (4) "All murder which shall be perpetuated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premedttated ktlling, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any... | |
 | Joseph Tate - 1841 - 992 pages
...directed by act of assembly to be so punished. Dec. 15, 1796— Mar. 25, 1800, R. С. с. 200. 2. § 2. All murder, which shall be perpetrated by means of poison,* or by lying in wait, t or by duress of imprisonment or confinement, or by starving, or by wilful, malicious and excessive... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1851 - 860 pages
...conspicuous; and the Pennsylvania and some of the Tennessee decisions show scarcely less light. Not only is all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or which shall be cdmmit58 Bivens vs. The State. [Joi-Y ted in the perpetration, or in the attempt to... | |
 | 1846 - 110 pages
...prosecution, ¡ MEDITATED KILLING, shall henceforth be deemed ment ; Be it enacted, that all murder, that shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by duress of imprisonment, or confinement, or by starving ; or by wilf could surprise and shock you, with... | |
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Pennsylvania, 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 to perpetrate any arson, rape,... 
