| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1910 - 804 pages
...murder. " Now, gentlemen, under the evidence in this case, if you find the prisoner guilty, you can find him guilty of murder in the first degree, or murder in the second degree, or guilty of manslaughter, and it will be your duty, if you find him guilty, to find in your verdict the... | |
| 1873 - 462 pages
...indictment, the judge refused the request of the prisoner's counsel to charge "that they could convict of murder in the first degree, or murder in the second degree, or of any of the degrees of manslaughter," and, in his charge, restricted the jury, in the event of any... | |
| 1872 - 438 pages
...charged. The counsel for the prisoner requested the judge to instruct the jury "that they could convict of murder in the first degree, or murder in the second degree, or of any of the degrees of manslaughter." This was refused, and exception taken. Subsequently, the judge,... | |
| 1873 - 464 pages
...indictment, the judge refused the request of the prisoner's counsel to charge " that they could convict of murder in the first degree, or murder in the second degree, or of any of the degrees of manslaughter," and, in his charge, restricted the jury.'in the event of any... | |
| L. B. Horrigan, Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1874 - 1132 pages
...the defendant guilty, as charged, the law makes it your duty by your verdict, to find whether he is guilty of murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree. Therefore, should you conclude from the proof in the cause, that the defendant, with malice aforethought,... | |
| Nicholas St. John Green - 1879 - 838 pages
...all degrees of homicide. In every such indictment, therefore, homicide is the subject charged, and murder in the first degree, or murder in the second degree, or manslaughter, is the result. Every such indictment, therefore, presents to the jury, three separate issues. On the... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1872 - 646 pages
...indictment, the judge retu-ed the request of the prisoner a counsel to charire ''that tiipy could convict of murder in the first degree, or murder in the second degree. or of any degrees of manslaughter," and in his charge restricted the jury in the event of .-iny conviction,... | |
| Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1878 - 934 pages
...act; but if it was caused under such circumstances as to. constitute a wrongful act, whether it was murder in the first degree, or murder in the second degree, or manslaughter, it is still a wrongful aet, which is actionable under the statute. 'Whether the death was caused under... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 886 pages
...act; but if it was caused under such circumstances as to constitute a wrongful act, whether it was murder in the first degree, or murder in the second degree, or manslaughter, it is still a wrongful act, which is actionable under the statute. Whether the death was caused under... | |
| 1899 - 962 pages
...having been informed as to what was murder, by the laws of Utah, to say whether the facts made a case arded as rules of decision In trials at common law, In the co 110 US 582, 4 Sup. Ct 206. And to Calton v. Utah. 130 US 83, 9 Sup. Ct. 435. a sentence of death upon... | |
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