Reports of Criminal Law Cases: Decided at the City-hall of the City of New York, with Notes and References, Volumen2Gould, Banks, 1851 |
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... killing is admitted or is doubtful , if a juror should have made up and delivered an opinion , that though unin- formed as to the fact of killing , he was confident of the malice - he was confident the prisoner had deliberately formed ...
... killing is admitted or is doubtful , if a juror should have made up and delivered an opinion , that though unin- formed as to the fact of killing , he was confident of the malice - he was confident the prisoner had deliberately formed ...
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... killed him instantly on the spot , the law pronounced such killing to be man- slaughter ; but if the stranger was attempting a rape , and the wife cried out , and the husband entered and killed him , it was justifiable homicide se ...
... killed him instantly on the spot , the law pronounced such killing to be man- slaughter ; but if the stranger was attempting a rape , and the wife cried out , and the husband entered and killed him , it was justifiable homicide se ...
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... killed . Ryan sus- pected her on this latter ground , and was very unhappy . They had frequently quarrelled , his wife being , when in- toxicated , very noisy and turbulent , and often beating him . She had , however , promised to amend ...
... killed . Ryan sus- pected her on this latter ground , and was very unhappy . They had frequently quarrelled , his wife being , when in- toxicated , very noisy and turbulent , and often beating him . She had , however , promised to amend ...
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... killed him , and I meant to kill him — and I'm willing to be hanged for it . " The watchman , it appeared , had been passing near , and , hearing the blows , had stopped ; hear- ing them continued , he went up on the stoop , and as he ...
... killed him , and I meant to kill him — and I'm willing to be hanged for it . " The watchman , it appeared , had been passing near , and , hearing the blows , had stopped ; hear- ing them continued , he went up on the stoop , and as he ...
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... kill . If the defendant has time to think , and did intend to kill , for a minute , as well as an hour or a day , it is a de- liberate , wilful and premeditated killing , constituting mur- der in the first degree , within the act of ...
... kill . If the defendant has time to think , and did intend to kill , for a minute , as well as an hour or a day , it is a de- liberate , wilful and premeditated killing , constituting mur- der in the first degree , within the act of ...
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Página xlviii - That if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, begin or set on foot, or provide or prepare the means for, any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are (at) peace, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars, and imprisoned...
Página lii - ... a copy of an indictment found or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any state or territory charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime, certified as authentic by the governor or chief magistrate of the state or territory from whence the person so charged has fled...
Página l - ... by adding to the number of guns of such vessel, or by changing those on board of her for guns of a larger caliber, or by the addition thereto of any equipment solely applicable to war.
Página 191 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Página 191 - In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Página 496 - In every charge of murder, the fact of killing being first proved, all the circumstances of accident, necessity, or infirmity are to be satisfactorily proved by the prisoner, unless they arise out of the evidence produced against him; for the law presumeth the fact to have been founded in malice, until the contrary appeareth.
Página xix - ... arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States or territorial court as by this act has cognizance of the offence.
Página xxviii - ... to the value of fifty dollars, or yield up such ship or vessel voluntarily to any pirate; or if any seaman shall lay violent hands upon his commander, thereby to hinder and prevent his fighting in defence of his ship or goods committed to his trust, or shall make a revolt in the ship; — every such offender shall be deemed, taken and adjugcd to be a pirate and felon, and being thereof convicted, shall suffer death...
Página 499 - Manslaughter is therefore thus defined, the unlawful killing of another, without malice either express or implied : which may be either voluntarily, upon a sudden heat ; or involuntarily, but in the commission of some unlawful act.
Página 69 - And that either of the justices of the supreme court, as well as judges of the district courts, shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus for the purpose of an inquiry into the cause of commitment. Provided, That writs of habeas corpus shall in no case extend to prisoners in gaol...