Reports of Select Cases Decided in the Courts of New York: Not Heretofore Reported, Or Reported Only PartiallyDiossy, 1883 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 61
... fire the pistol from the sidewalk after the affray was over , while other witnesses testified that he was an habitual drunkard , and that he had gone to bed very drunk that after- noon , and was asleep in another room when the affray ...
... fire the pistol from the sidewalk after the affray was over , while other witnesses testified that he was an habitual drunkard , and that he had gone to bed very drunk that after- noon , and was asleep in another room when the affray ...
Page 72
... fire . When she ate of the cakes she complained of the taste , and said they made her sick . He urged her to eat , saying they would do her good . She became sick , with a burning sensation in the throat and stomach , with a craving ...
... fire . When she ate of the cakes she complained of the taste , and said they made her sick . He urged her to eat , saying they would do her good . She became sick , with a burning sensation in the throat and stomach , with a craving ...
Page 87
... fire was given from the upper part of the house , and it was found that the building was on fire in two places in the garret . Some repairs had been recently made to the roof , and a large amount of combustible matter , such as shingles ...
... fire was given from the upper part of the house , and it was found that the building was on fire in two places in the garret . Some repairs had been recently made to the roof , and a large amount of combustible matter , such as shingles ...
Page 88
... fire to the house , and , at another time , that he was so drunk that he did not know what he was about . No attempt was made on the trial , by either party , to prove any motive that he could have had for burning the building . In his ...
... fire to the house , and , at another time , that he was so drunk that he did not know what he was about . No attempt was made on the trial , by either party , to prove any motive that he could have had for burning the building . In his ...
Page 90
... fire among those wooden buildings , in the dead of the night , and had intended , by watching and giving an alarm in time , to take every precaution against the loss of life , would any one say that the offense was as heinous , and ...
... fire among those wooden buildings , in the dead of the night , and had intended , by watching and giving an alarm in time , to take every precaution against the loss of life , would any one say that the offense was as heinous , and ...
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Page 112 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 341 - When perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual : "3.
Page 109 - ... to be secretly confined or imprisoned in this state, or to be sent out of the state, or...
Page 302 - From a deliberate and premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, or of another ; or 2. By an act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without...
Page 112 - ... Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued...
Page 104 - No person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action.
Page 112 - ... although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 343 - If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state...
Page 292 - The killing of a human being, unless it is excusable or justifiable, is murder in the first degree, when committed : 1. From a deliberate and premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, or of another ; or 2.
Page 185 - ... undoubted authority to control all persons and things within, their own territorial limits. When, therefore, both parties to a suit in a foreign country, are...