 All 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 perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery,...  Atlantic Reporter - Page 1051895Full view - About this book
 | Virginia - 1803 - 548 pages
...or attempt to perpetrate any arfon, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed tnurder of the firfl degree ; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the Jurj to "'""*/ '!** fecond degree, and the jury before whom any pirfun. indicted for murder shall ft*.1*"... | |
 | William Waller Hening - Forms (Law) - 1810 - 710 pages
...kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder in tin- //r.sv degree. And all otner kjnds of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree ;... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Horace Binney - Law reports, digests, etc - 1815 - 626 pages
...punishment, it is enacted, that all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, &c. Stc. shall be deemed murder of the first degree, and all...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... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1824 - 594 pages
...kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing ; or which shall be committed in the perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder in the first degree ; and all other kinds of murder, shall be deemed murder in the second degree.'... | |
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - Courts - 1826 - 722 pages
...kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in Uie perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder in the first degree." There have been several decisions on this Statute, by the Courts of that State,... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 516 pages
...to perpetrate arson, rape, sodomy, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree ; all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree ; and the jury shall determine whether the offence be murder of the first or of the second degree.... | |
 | Edward Livingston - Crime - 1833 - 766 pages
...which shall he committed in the perpetration of certain enumerated crimes, "shall be deemed murder in the first degree, and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree." Here all murder by premeditated killing forms one. degree; but premeditation... | |
 | Edward Livingston - Crime - 1833 - 768 pages
...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 shall be deemed murder in the second degree." Here all murder by premeditated killing forms one degree; but premeditation... | |
 | Law - 1835 - 510 pages
...kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery...and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of'the second degree.' And this is the usual distinction, although slightly varied in different states;... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - Michigan - 1837 - 260 pages
...kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery,...burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree, and shall be punished by death ; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree,... | |
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