 | 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 - 1810 - 710 pages
...killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the...murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree ; (b) and the jury before whom any person indicted for murder shall be tried shall, if they find such... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Horace Binney - 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...indicted for murder shall be tried, shall, if they fend such person guilty, ascertain in their verdict whether it be murder in the first or second degree;... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1824 - 594 pages
...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.' In the last mode of killing, enumerated in this law, viz. where a man kills... | |
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - 1826 - 722 pages
...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 murder in the second degree." It is admitted that if this enactment stopped here, and was taken unconnected... | |
 | 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. The punishment... | |
 | Edward Livingston - 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... | |
 | Edward Livingston - 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... | |
 | 1835 - 510 pages
...killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the...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 - 1837 - 260 pages
...killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or 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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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 to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery... 
