 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 1804 - 456 sider
...alone is punished with death, and is the only capital crime now known to the laws of Pennsylvania. Murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying...of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or committed in the. perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, is... | |
 | William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 sider
...penitentiary system of Virginia, the two degrees of murder are thus defined : " All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by duress of imprisonment or confinement, or by starving, or by wilful, malicious, and excessive whipping,... | |
 | James Mease - 1811 - 404 sider
...of death was abolished for all crimes except murder of the first degree ; by which is understood " all murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait: * American Museum Vol.- 4. fUo. do. do. or by any ether kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated... | |
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - 1826 - 722 sider
...a Case of murder in the first or second degree ' Our Act declares, " that all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by duress of imprisonment or confinement, or by starving, or by wilful, malicious, and excessive whipping,... | |
 | 1843 - 516 sider
...crimes," contains provisions relating to murder and sundry other offences of an aggravated character. All murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying...of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or committed in perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate arson, rape, sodomy, robbery or burglary, shall... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1831 - 444 sider
...consequently excluding murder in the first degree. In Pennsylvania, no crime is punishable with death, but murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by some other kind of wilful, deliberate, »nd premeditated killing, or perpetrated in the commission... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1831 - 438 sider
...consequently excluding murder in Ihejirst degree. In Pennsylvania, no crime is punishable with death, but murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by some other kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or perpetrated in the commission of... | |
 | Edward Livingston - 1833 - 768 sider
...attempted to amend it, by enacting that "all murder by persons lying in wait, or any other kind of deliberate and premeditated killing," or which shall be committed in the perpetration of certain enumerated crimes, "shall be deemed murder in the first degree, and all other kinds of murder... | |
 | Edward Livingston - 1833 - 768 sider
...attempted to amend it, by enacting that "all murder by persons lying in wait, or any other kind of deliberate and premeditated killing," or which shall be committed in the perpetration of certain enumerated crimes, "shall be deemed murder in the first degree, and all other kinds of murder... | |
 | Mann Butler - 1834 - 418 sider
...defined to consist in "murder, which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying-in-wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing; or which shall be committed in the peipetration, or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary." Other kinds of homicide... | |
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State, our law regarding that there were cases that did not fall within this definition that might be murder in the first degree, passed an Act of Assembly, which reads in part as follows : "All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or... 
