The Magistrate's Criminal Law: A Practical Treatise on the Jurisdiction, Duty, and Authority of Justices of the Peace in the State of New York, in Criminal Cases. Containing Also a Summary of the Law Relative to Crimes and Punishments, with an Appendix of Forms of Proceedings |
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... particular attention has been paid to that head , and no pains have been spared to make it accurate and useful . As the book is intended mainly for the use of a class who are not very familiar with law books , or legal phraseology , it ...
... particular attention has been paid to that head , and no pains have been spared to make it accurate and useful . As the book is intended mainly for the use of a class who are not very familiar with law books , or legal phraseology , it ...
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... particular individual ; 3. When perpe- trated without any design to effect death , by a person engaged in the commission of any felony . And by the sixth section , the wounding of another in a duel out of this state , of which wound he ...
... particular individual ; 3. When perpe- trated without any design to effect death , by a person engaged in the commission of any felony . And by the sixth section , the wounding of another in a duel out of this state , of which wound he ...
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... particular enmity can be proved . And if a man kills another suddenly , without provocation , the law implies malice ; for no person , unless of an abandoned heart , would be guilty of such an act upon a slight or no apparent cause ...
... particular enmity can be proved . And if a man kills another suddenly , without provocation , the law implies malice ; for no person , unless of an abandoned heart , would be guilty of such an act upon a slight or no apparent cause ...
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... particular person by name , though that person may happen to be innocent of the offence with which he is charged . ( z ) As a general rule , in cases of felony actually committed , private per- sons may lawfully apprehend without ...
... particular person by name , though that person may happen to be innocent of the offence with which he is charged . ( z ) As a general rule , in cases of felony actually committed , private per- sons may lawfully apprehend without ...
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... particular circumstances may require . Thus , though where one lays poison to kill rats , and another person takes it and dies , this is accidental homicide ; yet it must be understood to have been laid in such manner and place as not ...
... particular circumstances may require . Thus , though where one lays poison to kill rats , and another person takes it and dies , this is accidental homicide ; yet it must be understood to have been laid in such manner and place as not ...
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The Magistrate's Criminal Law: A Practical Treatise on the Jurisdiction ... Oliver L. Barbour No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 38 - Homicide is also justifiable when committed by any person in either of the following cases: "(1) When resisting any attempt to murder such person, or to commit any felony upon him or her, or upon or In any dwelling house In which such person shall be...
Page 644 - ... obligation shall be void and of no effect, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 211 - It seems that an assault is an attempt, or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another...
Page 25 - And all these circumstances of justification, excuse or alleviation, it is incumbent upon the prisoner to make out, to the satisfaction of the court and jury : the latter of whom are to decide whether the circumstances alleged are proved to have actually existed ; the former, how far they extend to take away or mitigate the guilt. For all homicide is presumed to be malicious, until the contrary appeareth upon evidence1.
Page 59 - By an act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life...
Page 441 - And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Page 235 - Where the performance of any act is prohibited by any statute, and no penalty for the violation of such statute is imposed, either in the same section containing such prohibition, or in any other section or statute, the doing such act shall be deemed a misdemeanor.
Page 153 - Therefore no delivery of the goods from owner to the offender, upon trust, can ground a larceny. As if A lends B a horse, and he rides away with him ; or if I send goods by a carrier, and he carries them away; these are no larcenies.
Page 333 - 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 60 - The killing of a human being, without a design to effect death, by the act, procurement or culpable negligence of...