 | Marcus Tullius Hun - 1882 - 804 páginas
...other statute, should be construed to mean an offense for which the offender, on conviction, should be liable by law to be punished by death or by imprisonment in the State prison. (2 RS, 702, § 30.) And by the same chapter it was declared that every person who... | |
 | 1898 - 1200 páginas
...read as though, Instead of the words 'or other felony,' it had been written, 'or any other offense for which the offender, on conviction, shall be liable, by law, to be punished by imprisonment In the state prison.' We think the term 'or other felony' is not a limitation on what... | |
 | David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield - 1898 - 1058 páginas
...feature designated by the laws of the state as the characteristic of a felony, namely, a liability to be punished by death or by imprisonment in a state prison." US v. Barabo, 14 Blatchf. (US) 743. Thus in Kentucky, Holt, J., in holding that while, as to useful... | |
 | William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall - 1900 - 702 páginas
...declaring that the term "felony," when "used in any statute," shall be construed to mean an offense for which the offender, on conviction, shall be liable by law to be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, does not make an offense a felony which was only a misdemeanor at... | |
 | United States, Samuel June Barrows - 1900 - 516 páginas
...Felony defined. — The term "felony," when used in any statute, shall be construed to mean an offense for which the offender, on conviction, shall be liable by law to be punished by imprisonment in a State prison. (Statutes 1898, sec. 4637.) NOTE.— An offense not a felony at common... | |
 | 1900 - 516 páginas
...Felony denned. — The term "felony," when used in any statute, shall be construed to mean an offense for which the offender, on conviction, shall be liable by law to be punished by imprisonment in a State prison. (Statutes 1898, sec. 4637.) NOTE. — An offense not a felony at common... | |
 | United States, Samuel June Barrows - 1900 - 520 páginas
...other statu te, shall be construed to mean an offense for which the offender, on conviction, shall he liable by law to be punished by death or by imprisonment in the State prison. (Compiled Laws, 11791.) Misdemeanor. — There are over 350 offenses or misdemeanors... | |
 | 1903 - 708 páginas
...the penal code of Georgia which went into operation on the 1st June. 1831. "when used in this act. as an offence, for which the offender, on conviction,...shall be liable by law to be punished by death, or imprisonment in the Penitentiary, and not otherwise."— ÍEd. of Original Edition.) 235 *Frans. H.... | |
 | 1904 - 1082 páginas
...county jail. is a felony within the meaning of 2 NY Rev. Stat. 702, defining a felony to lie an offense for which the offender, on conviction, shall be liable by law to be punished by death or Imprisonment in the state prison ; so that a homicide committed while perpetrating, or attempting to... | |
 | 1904 - 1402 páginas
...conviction for felony" incompetent to testify (2 Rev. St. p. 701, § 23), and defining felony as "an offense for which the offender, on conviction, shall be liable by law to be punished by death or imprisonment in state prison" (Id. p. 702, 8 38), one who has been convicted of and sentenced for the... | |
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Although it is provided (Ib., 989, §40) that "the term ' felony,' when used in this act, or in any other statute, shall be construed to mean an offence for which the offender, on conviction, shall be liable by law to be punished by death, or by imprisonment... 
