Second Decennial Edition of the American Digest: A Complete Digest of All Reported Cases from 1906 to 1916, Volume 12West Publishing Company, 1920 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 354 - When resisting any attempt to murder any person, or to commit a felony, or to do some great bodily injury upon any person : or, 2. When committed in defense of habitation, property, or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors, by violence or surprise, to commit a felony...
Page 28 - From a deliberate and premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, or of another ; or 2.
Page 332 - No act committed by a person while in a state of voluntary intoxication is less criminal by reason of his having been in such condition.
Page 121 - The precise time at which the offense was committed need not be stated in the indictment or information, but it may be alleged to have been committed at any time before the finding or filing thereof, except where the time is a material ingredient in the offense.
Page 124 - For instance, it is a principle of law that every man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own deliberate and wilful act. So that from the use of a deadly weapon...
Page 22 - ... burglary, or robbery; or perpetrated from a premeditated design unlawfully and maliciously to effect the death of any human being other than him who is killed, is murder in the first degree. Any other murder is murder in the second degree.
Page 27 - All murder that shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate any arson, rape, etc., shall be deemed murder in the first degree and that all other kinds of murder shall be murder in the second degree.
Page 353 - If from all the evidence in the case they should find that the circumstances were such as to excite the fears of a reasonable man...
Page 40 - In cases of voluntary manslaughter, there must be a serious and highly provoking injury inflicted upon the person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or an attempt, by the person killed, to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing.
Page 24 - By an act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without a premeditated design to effect the death of any individual; or without a design to effect death, by a person engaged in the commission of, or in an attempt to commit a felony, either upon or affecting the person killed or otherwise; or, 3.