 | Virginia - 1803 - 1026 pagina’s
...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...committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arfon, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murderof f . the firft degree ; and all other kinds... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 1804 - 456 pagina’s
...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,...of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or committed in the. perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, is... | |
 | 1806 - 770 pagina’s
...by means of poison,by!yingin wait, or with other kind of wilful deliberate, premeditated intention, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or...perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary. All other kinds of lulling shall be deemed murder in the second'degree. The kind of murder to be ascertained... | |
 | William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | James Mease - 1811 - 404 pagina’s
...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;...perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery or burglary." Such has been the effect o£ the abolition of the spectacles of public executions, upon the feelings... | |
 | 1824 - 296 pagina’s
...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,...perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary." Of the regulations prescribed for the government of this community of convicts, and which are generally... | |
 | 1824 - 288 pagina’s
...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,...perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbeiy, or burglary." Of the regulations prescribed for the government of this community of convicts,... | |
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - 1826 - 722 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1843 - 516 pagina’s
...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,...of wilful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or committed in perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate arson, rape, sodomy, robbery or burglary, shall... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1831 - 444 pagina’s
...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... | |
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No crime, whatsoever, hereafter committed, (except murder in the first degree,) shall be punished with death in the state of Pennsylvania. — .] 
