 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Horace Binney - 1815 - 626 sider
...murder of the first degree, and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree, and the jury before whom any person indicted for murder shall be tried, shall, if they fend such person guilty, ascertain in their verdict whether it be murder in the first or second degree;... | |
 | Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization, Ohio - 1821 - 242 sider
...rnurr'er, the jury before whom such trial is had, if i hey find the prisoner guilty thereof, shall ascertain in their verdict whether it be murder in the first or second degree ; and if such prisoner be convicted by conlession in open court, the court shall proceed by examination... | |
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - 1826 - 722 sider
...the Applicant. It does not, however, stop here, but goes on to say, " and the jury before whom such person, indicted for murder, shall be tried, shall, if they find such person guilty thereof," that is murder, "ascertain in their verdict whether it be murder in the first or second degree:" Cut... | |
 | 1834 - 478 sider
...shall determine, in a prosecution for murder; whether the crime be of the first or second degree — "The Jury before whom any person indicted for murder...thereof, ascertain in their verdict whether it be murder of the first or second degree." Until, therefore, a prosecution for murder readies the stage of trial,... | |
 | Ohio - 1834 - 780 sider
...for .murder, the jury before whom such trial is had, if they find the prisoner guilty thereof, shall ascertain in their verdict, whether it be murder in the first or second degree ; and if such prisoner be convicted by confession in open court, the court shall proceed by examination... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Isaac Wharton - 1836 - 580 sider
...perpetrate any arson, rape, or burglary," upon the same footing. And the act expressly provides, that the jury before whom, any person indicted for murder...whether it be murder in the first or second degree. Here is a positive and absolute direction to the jury, as to the form and manner of their finding,... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, George Shall Yerger - 1836 - 640 sider
...first or second degree. This- objection is well taken: The act of 1829, c. 23, § 3, enacts, "that the jury before whom any person indicted for murder...whether it be murder in the first or second degree. The second objection is, to the charge of the court as to the manner in which the testimony in the... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1837 - 306 sider
...was then amended by inserting as section two, chapter one hundred and forty, as follows : " Sec. 2. The jury before whom any person indicted for murder...convicted by confession, the court shall proceed by the examination of witnesses to determine the degree of the same, and to give sentence accordingly."... | |
 | Joseph Tate - 1841 - 992 sider
...[See Acts 1669, act 1, 2 Stat. Larg. 270.] And the jury, before whom any person indicted for murder(6) shall be tried, shall, if they find such person guilty thereof, ascertain in their verdict(c) whether it be murder in the first or second degree ; but if such person shall be convicted... | |
 | Michigan - 1846 - 896 sider
...how to SEC. 3. The jury before whom any person indicted for murder shall be uet¿rmined. be tiled, shall, if they find such person guilty thereof, ascertain in their verdict, whether it be murder of the first or second degree ; but if such person shall be convicted by confession, the court shall... | |
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... the jury before whom any person indicted for murder shall be tried, shall, if they find such person guilty thereof, designate by their verdict, whether it be murder of the first or second degree... 
