 | John H. Colby - Criminal law - 1868 - 806 pages
...asserted, or even wrong that may rightly be redressed, by extreme remedies. There is a wanton disregard of social duty in taking or endeavoring to take the life...one's self from a comparatively slight wrong, which the law abhors. You may not kill because you cannot otherwise effect your object, although the object... | |
 | John H. Colby - Criminal law - 1868 - 796 pages
...modification that he shall not, except in extreme cases, endanger human life or great bodily harm. It is not every right of person, and still less of property, that can lawfully be asserted, or even wrong that may rightly be redressed, by extreme remedies. There is a wanton disregard of social... | |
 | L. B. Horrigan, Seymour Dwight Thompson - Self-defense (Law) - 1874 - 1132 pages
...modification, that he shall not, except in extreme cases, endanger human life or great bodily harm. It is not every right of person, and still less of...a recklessness — a wanton disregard of humanity or social duty — in taking, or endeavoring to take, the life of a fellow-being — which is essentially... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 916 pages
...Combs (1833) 7 JJ Marsh. 478, 23 Am. Dec. 431. For it is not every right of person and still leaeof property that can lawfully be asserted, or every wrong that may rightfully be redressed br extreme remedies. State v. Morgan, supra. tain building, under a statute requiring the fact to be... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1024 pages
...Comb« (1833) 7 JJ Marsh. 478, 23 Am. Deo. 481. For it la not every right of person and still leas of property that can lawfully be asserted, or every...that may rightfully be redressed by extreme remedies. State v. Morgan, supra. Iti4 tain bullding, uodur a statute requiring the fact to be stated but making... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 900 pages
...speaking of an assault with a deadly weapon to prevent a trespass, the Court, by Gaslon, J., says: "It is not every right of person, and still less of...can lawfully be asserted, or every wrong that may be rightfully redressed by extreme remedies. There is a recklessness — a wanton disregard of humanity... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 958 pages
...modification, that he shall not, except in extreme cases, endanger human life or do great bodily harm. It is not every right of person, and still less of...be asserted, or every wrong that may rightfully be rendered by extreme remedies. There is a recklessness — a wanton — disregard of humanity and social... | |
 | Joseph Herman Schauinger - Judges - 1949 - 270 pages
...which might tend to look upon human life as cheap aroused the intense wrath of Gaston. Of this he said, "There is a recklessness — a wanton disregard of...to take the life of a fellow being in order to save oneself from a comparatively slight wrong — which is essentially wicked and which the law abhorred.... | |
 | 1923 - 1642 pages
...modification, that he shall not, except in extreme cases, endanger human life or great bodily harm. It is not every right of person, and still less of...take the life of a fellow being, in order to save oneself from a comparatively slight wrong, which is essentially wicked, and which the law abhors. You... | |
 | Minnesota. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 510 pages
...alleviation of the homicide from murder to manslaughter. There is a wanton disregard of human life and social duty in taking or endeavoring to take the life of a fellow being, in order to save'ourself from a comparatively slight wrong, which the law abhors. To determine on the sufficiency... | |
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There is a recklessness — a wanton disregard of humanity and social duty — in taking, or endeavoring to take, the life of a fellow being in order to save one's self from a comparatively slight wrong, which is essentially wicked and the law abhors. 
