 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1824 - 594 pages
..... j.- i • i- j. • a- nS £• maiíctoiií. inahce an essential ingredient in the offence. INo act of shooting, therefore, will amount, under this...amounted to the crime of murder, if death had ensued : and it follows, that neither an accidental shooting, nor a shooting in a transport of passion excited... | |
 | William Hough - 1825 - 1028 pages
...(351). 9. Evidence for wilfully and maliciously Shooting at.] 1st. " The shooting must be malicious. No act of shooting, therefore, will amount, under...amounted to the crime of murder, if death had ensued, and it follows, that neither an accidental shooting, nor a shooting in a transport of passion, excited... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1826 - 780 pages
...wilfully and maliciously shoot, &c. ;" thereby making malice an ol"' essential ingredient in the offence. No act of shooting, therefore, will amount, under...amounted to the crime of murder, if death had ensued : and it follows, that neither an accidental shooting, nor a shooting in a transport of passion, excited... | |
 | Asia - 1822 - 658 pages
...in 1723, for shooting at Lord Onslow. Malice is an essential ingredient to constitute this offence ; no act of shooting, therefore, will amount, under...circumstances, as in construction of law would have amounted to murder if death bad ensued; and it follows, that neither an maliciously shooting, on the Black Act,... | |
 | Camden Pelham - Crime - 1841 - 710 pages
...law was thus laid down : — ' The offence charged in this indictment is described by the statute, in which it is framed, in very few and very clear words,...proposition most clearly and unavoidably results from the legal interpretation of the word maliciously, as applied to this subject ; for there is no species... | |
 | James Thomas Brudenell Earl of Cardigan - Criminal intent - 1841 - 136 pages
...person or persons shall wilfully " ' and maliciously shoot at any person in an)' dwelling " ' house or other place he shall be adjudged guilty of " '...capital offence, unless it be accompanied with such circum" stances as in construction of law would have amounted " to the crime of murder if death had... | |
 | James Thomas Brudenell Earl of Cardigan - Criminal intent - 1841 - 140 pages
...person or persons shall wilfully " ' and maliciously shoot at any person in any dwelling " ' house or other place he shall be adjudged guilty of " '...capital offence, unless it be accompanied with such circum" stances as in construction of law would have amounted " to the crime of murder if death had... | |
 | Law - 1841 - 522 pages
...persons shall wilfully and maliciously shoot at any person in any dwelling-house or other place, lie shall be adjudged guilty of felony, without benefit...under this statute, to a capital offence, unless it he accompanied with such circumstances as in construction of law would have amounted to the crime of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1842 - 964 pages
...offence charged in this indictment is described by the statute on which it is framed in very few and clear words, which are, ' That if any person or persons...proposition most clearly and unavoidably results from the legal interpretation of the word maliciously, as applied to this subject; for there is no species... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 424 pages
...described by the statute, in which it is framed, in very few and very clear VOL. VI., NO. XXVII. L words, which are — ' That if any person or persons...proposition most clearly and unavoidably results from the legal interpretation of the word maliciously, as applied to this subject ; for there is no species... | |
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The word maliciously is made to constitute the very essence of this crime ; no act of shooting, therefore, will amount, under this statute, to a capital offence, unless it be accompanied with such circumstances as, in. construction of law, would have... 
