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" All murder which is perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which is committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate arson, rape, robbery, burglary, or... "
The Pacific Reporter - Page 372
1925
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ..., Volume 59

California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 886 pages
...circumstances attending the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart. All murder which is perpetrated ly means of poison, or lying in wait, torture, or by...attempt to perpetrate, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, and mayhem, is murder in the first degree, and all other kinds of murder are of the second degree....
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ..., Volume 57

California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 782 pages
...the circumstances attending the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart. " All murder which ia perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait,...and premeditated killing, or which is committed in thj perpetration or attempt to perpetrate arson, rape, robbery, burglary, or mayhem, is murder of the...
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ..., Volume 8

California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 762 pages
...in the first and second degree. The twenty-first section provides that "all murder, which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait,...of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing," etc., "shall be deemed murder in the first degree." The evident design of the statute, was to distinguish...
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ..., Volume 44

California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 804 pages
...full measure of the definition of murder. It is clear that there may be many murders not committed by means of poison, or lying in wait, torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, or premeditated killing, or in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery,...
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ..., Volume 170

California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 964 pages
...prosecution of the burglarious scheme of himself and Oxnam. Our statute expressly providing that any murder "which is committed in the perpetration or attempt...perpetrate arson, rape, robbery, burglary, or mayhem, is murder of the first degree," (Pen. Code, sec. 189), makes this a case where no other verdict than...
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ..., Volume 138

California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 880 pages
...you believe from the evidence that he killed the deceased, James Tucker, by means, solely and alone, of poison, or lying in wait, torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, or premeditated killing, for the defendant is not now on his trial for any other offense than manslaughter,...
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The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies

Hugo Adam Bedau - Law - 1998 - 548 pages
...— A murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starving, torture, 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, robbery, burglary...
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Rethinking Criminal Law

George P. Fletcher - Law - 2000 - 930 pages
...All murder which is perpetrated by means of a destructive device or explosive, poison, lying-in-wait, torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing ... is murder of the first degree. The most liberal possible interpretation of this language would...
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Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis

Brent E. Turvey - Law - 2002 - 758 pages
...device or explosive, knowing use of ammunition designed primarily to penetrate metal or armor, poison, lying in wait torture, or by any other kind of willful,...killing, or which is committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, arson, rape, carjacking, robbery, burglary, mayhem, kidnapping, train...
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Death Penalty Cases

Barry Latzer - Law - 2002 - 366 pages
...— A murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starving, torture, 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, robbery, kidnapping,...
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