 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,...  The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801 - Page 179by Pennsylvania, James Tyndale Mitchell, Henry Flanders - 1911Full view - About this book
 | 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
...sect. 31. Under 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,... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Law - 1835 - 510 pages
...from each other in their atrocity that it is unjust to involve them in the same punishment, enacts, ' that all murder which shall be perpetrated by means...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... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Isaac Wharton - Law reports, digests, etc - 1836 - 580 pages
...to be indispensably necessary under the act of the 22d of April, 1794. That act places 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... | |
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