Summary of the Law Relative to Pleading and Evidence in Criminal Cases: With Precedents of Indictments, &c. and the Evidence Necessary to Support Them |
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... killed , he who laid the poison , though absent when it was taken , is a principal in the first degree . Vaux's case , 4 Co. 44 b . Fost . 349. So , it is not necessary that the act should be perpetrated with his own hands ; for if an ...
... killed , he who laid the poison , though absent when it was taken , is a principal in the first degree . Vaux's case , 4 Co. 44 b . Fost . 349. So , it is not necessary that the act should be perpetrated with his own hands ; for if an ...
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... kill a man , it is murder in all who are present , whether they actually aid or abet or not , see the Sessinghurst - house case , 1 Hale , 461 , provided the death were caused by the act of some one of the party in the course of his ...
... kill a man , it is murder in all who are present , whether they actually aid or abet or not , see the Sessinghurst - house case , 1 Hale , 461 , provided the death were caused by the act of some one of the party in the course of his ...
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... kill the other , it is manslaughter in the servant and murder in the master . 1 Hale , 446 . In the case of murder ... killed , the rule of law in this respect has been too far strained ; and he seems to doubt whether such second should ...
... kill the other , it is manslaughter in the servant and murder in the master . 1 Hale , 446 . In the case of murder ... killed , the rule of law in this respect has been too far strained ; and he seems to doubt whether such second should ...
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... killing her mistress ; 1 Hale , 26 ; and where an infant , nine years of age , killed an infant of the like age , and confessed the felony , it appearing upon examination that he had hid both the blood and the body , the justices were ...
... killing her mistress ; 1 Hale , 26 ; and where an infant , nine years of age , killed an infant of the like age , and confessed the felony , it appearing upon examination that he had hid both the blood and the body , the justices were ...
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... kill C. , A. is guilty of murder , but B. is excused ; but if merely a moral force be used , as threats , duress of imprison- ment , or even an assault to the peril of his life , in order to com- pel him to kill C. , it is no legal ...
... kill C. , A. is guilty of murder , but B. is excused ; but if merely a moral force be used , as threats , duress of imprison- ment , or even an assault to the peril of his life , in order to com- pel him to kill C. , it is no legal ...
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