 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1839 - 1324 pages
...proposed as a substitute for § 1, ch. 125, of Part 4 of Rev. Stat, which is as follows, (pp. 716): " Every person, who shall commit the crime of murder, shall suffer the punishment of deallifor the same" The reasons for this proposition are fully stated in the preliminary note. The... | |
 | Criminal law - 1845 - 68 pages
...proposed as a substitute for § 1, ch. 125, of Part 4 of Rev. Stat, which is as follows, (pp. 716): " Every person, who shall commit the crime of murder, shall suffer the punishment of death for the same" The reasons for this proposition are fully stated in the preliminary note. The slight... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...in homicide, see EJC parte Tayloe, 5 Coieen, 51. Goodwin't cose, 1 111. Cr. C. 443. MASSACHUSETTS. Every person who shall commit the crime of murder, shall suffer the punishment of death for the same, llu-. Slot. chap. 125, sect. 1. In every case of conviction of the crime of murder, the... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 784 pages
...in homicide, sec Ex parle Tayloe, 5 Couten, 51. Goodtoin'i case, 1 >> ... Cr. C. 443. MASSACHUSETTS. derstands the nature and character of his act and its consequences, if he has a knowled for the same. Rev. Stat. chap. 125, sect. I. In every case of conviction of the crime of murder, the... | |
 | Law - 1854 - 740 pages
...him the sentence of the law, which is death. Whether the law upon our statute book, which declares "that every person who shall commit the crime of murder shall suffer the punishment of death for the same," and which has been there from the very foundation of the Government, and through all... | |
 | John White Webster, George Bemis - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1850 - 670 pages
...has denounced its severest penalty, in these few and simple, but solemn and impressive words : — " Every person who shall commit the crime of murder shall suffer the punishment of death for the same." The manifest object of this laAv is the protection and security of human life, the most... | |
 | Vermont - Law - 1851 - 838 pages
...or steal, how punished. shot, how punished. 22. Robbery by a person not armed, &c., how SECTION 1. Every person, who shall commit the crime of murder, shall suffer the punishment of death for the same. (Sec. 1 of RS) SECT. 2. If any person shall wilfully and corruptly bear false testimony,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 702 pages
...is proper to say, that whilst the statute law of the commonwealth declares (Rev. Sts. c. 125, § 1,) that " Every person who shall commit the crime of murder shall suffer the punishment of death for the same ; " yet it nowhere defines the crimes of murder or manslaughter, with all their minute... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 704 pages
...is proper to say, that whilst the statute law of the commonwealth declares (Rev. Sts. c. 125, § 1,) that " Every person who shall commit the crime of murder shall suffer the punishment of death for the same ; " yet it nowhere defines the crimes of murder or manslaughter, with all their minute... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 884 pages
...it is proper to say, that whilst the statute law of the commonwealth declares, RS, c. 125, sec. 1, that " every person who shall commit the crime of murder shall suffer the punishment of death for the same;" yet it nowhere defines the Crimea of murder or manslaughter, with all their minute and... | |
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... two species of criminal homicide, familiarly known as murder and manslaughter. In seeking for the sources of our law upon this subject, it is proper to say, that whilst the statute law of the commonwealth declares (Rev. Sts. c. 125, § 1,) that "... 
