A Practical Treatise Upon the Criminal Law and Practice of the State of New York: With an Appendix of Precedents, Designed for the Use of the Legal Profession, and All Public Officers Engaged in the Administration of Criminal Law, and as a Textbook for Students ...W.C. Little, 1868 - Criminal law |
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... tion to show such capacity ; above the age of fourteen they have legal capacity unless something else other than non - age inter- venes to show a want or defect of will . SECTION II . EXEMPTION FROM PUNISHMENT ON THE GROUND OF INSANITY ...
... tion to show such capacity ; above the age of fourteen they have legal capacity unless something else other than non - age inter- venes to show a want or defect of will . SECTION II . EXEMPTION FROM PUNISHMENT ON THE GROUND OF INSANITY ...
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... tion commits a homicide , although amounting to frenzy , does not exempt him from the same construction of his conduct , and the same legal inferences upon the question of intent , as affecting the grade of his crime , which are ...
... tion commits a homicide , although amounting to frenzy , does not exempt him from the same construction of his conduct , and the same legal inferences upon the question of intent , as affecting the grade of his crime , which are ...
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... tion in these particular cases . Where the wife offends alone without the company or coercion of her husband , she is as much responsible for her offence as if she were a feme sole , and among others , feme coverts have been indicted ...
... tion in these particular cases . Where the wife offends alone without the company or coercion of her husband , she is as much responsible for her offence as if she were a feme sole , and among others , feme coverts have been indicted ...
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... tion from punishment , must be understood of cases where the innocent act is done with reasonable skill and care , for if the unintended offence arise from ignorance where skill was required , or from negligence , where great care and ...
... tion from punishment , must be understood of cases where the innocent act is done with reasonable skill and care , for if the unintended offence arise from ignorance where skill was required , or from negligence , where great care and ...
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... tion to render assistance if necessary , the knowledge of which would be calculated to inspire confidence in his comrades . " ' Rex . v . Bingley , R. & R. , 446 ; R. v . Kirkwood , R. & M. , 304 ; R. v . Dade , Id . , 307 . ' R. v ...
... tion to render assistance if necessary , the knowledge of which would be calculated to inspire confidence in his comrades . " ' Rex . v . Bingley , R. & R. , 446 ; R. v . Kirkwood , R. & M. , 304 ; R. v . Dade , Id . , 307 . ' R. v ...
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Popular passages
Page 238 - No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of militia when in actual service; and the land and naval forces in time of war, or which this State may keep with the consent of Congress in time of peace, and in cases of petit larceny, under the regulation of the Legislature), unless on presentment or indictment of a grand jury...
Page 483 - 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 in a State Prison...
Page 613 - Every person who shall administer to any woman pregnant with a quick child any medicine, drug or substance whatever, or shall use or employ any instrument or other means, with intent thereby to destroy such child, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such mother, or shall have been advised by two physicians to be necessary for such purpose, shall, in case the death of such child or of such mother be thereby produced, be deemed guilty of manslaughter.
Page 405 - ... county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars and not less than one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 121 - Whenever any mandate, writ or commission is issued out of any court of record in any other state, territory, district or foreign jurisdiction, or whenever upon notice or agreement it is required to take the testimony of a witness or witnesses in this state, witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify in the same manner and by the same process and proceeding as may be employed for the purpose of taking testimony in proceedings pending in this state.
Page 593 - By an act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life...
Page 399 - A sentence of imprisonment in a state prison for any term less than for life suspends all the civil rights of the person so sentenced, and forfeits all public offices and all private trusts, authority, or power during such imprisonment.
Page 670 - Provided always, that if upon the Trial of any Person indicted for such Misdemeanor it shall be proved that he obtained the Property in question in any such Manner as to amount in Law to Larceny, he shall not by reason thereof be entitled to be acquitted of such Misdemeanor; and no such Indictment shall be removable by Certiorari; and no Person tried for such Misdemeanor shall be liable to be afterwards prosecuted for Larceny upon the same Facts.
Page 543 - For decoying, taking, or enticing away a child under the age of twelve years, with intent to detain and conceal it from its parent, guardian, or other person having the lawful charge of the child; 3.
Page 508 - Every person who takes any woman unlawfully, against her will, and by force, menace, or duress, compels her to marry him, or to marry any other person, or to be defiled ,is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not less than two nor more than fourteen years.