 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 1804 - 456 pages
...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 in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or committed in the. perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate,... | |
 | William Waller Hening - Forms (Law) - 1810 - 710 pages
...the 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,... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 760 pages
...decided. Section 107 of the Crimes act (Comp. Stat., p. 1780), a much later statute, declares that murder "which shall be committed in perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate any arson, burglary, rape, robbery or sodomy, shall be murder in the first degree." As there were no degrees of... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1824 - 296 pages
...death in all cases, except murder in the first degree, by which is declared to be meant "all murder 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 or attempt... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1824 - 288 pages
...death in all cases, except murder in the first degree, by which is declared to be meant "all murder 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 or attempt... | |
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - Courts - 1826 - 722 pages
...preamble, fully justifies this commentary. Let us examine it minutely. It enacts that, "all murder'which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, &c. shall henceforth be deemed murder in the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 516 pages
...contains provisions relating to murder and sundry other offences of an aggravated character. All murder perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or committed in perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1831 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1831 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | Law - 1835 - 510 pages
...atrocity that it is unjust to involve them in the same punishment, enacts, ' that 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 or attempt... | |
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He immediately proceeds to give them a definition of murder in the first degree, and of murder in the second degree as follows, to-wit: "All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate,... 
