| Virginia - 1803 - 1026 pages
...further tnatleit, That all murder which shall he perpetrated by means of poifon, or by lying in waitf or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arfon, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murderof... | |
| James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 1804 - 456 pages
...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...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 pages
...involve them in the same punishment. Be it further enacted, that all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any...premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed... | |
| James Mease - 1811 - 404 pages
...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 killing; or which shall be committed in the perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery or burglary." Such has been the... | |
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - 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... | |
| 1824 - 296 pages
...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...premeditated killing; or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary." Of the regulations... | |
| 1824 - 288 pages
...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...premeditated killing; or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbeiy, or burglary." Of the regulations... | |
| William Oldnall Russell - 1824 - 594 pages
...act of 1794 declares, ' that all murder which shall be perpetrated bj means of poison, or by laying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate...premeditated killing ; or which shall be committed in the perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder... | |
| Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - 1826 - 722 pages
...starving, or by wilful, malicious, and excessive whipping, beating, or other cruel treatment, or torture, or by any other 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 henceforth... | |
| 1843 - 516 pages
...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...of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or committed in perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate arson, rape, sodomy, robbery or burglary, shall... | |
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