Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr (Late Vice President of the United States, ) for Treason, and for a Misdemeanor: in Preparing the Means of a Military Expedition Against Mexico, a Territory of the King of Spain, With Whom the United States Were
Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr (Late Vice President of the United States, ) for Treason, and for a Misdemeanor: in Preparing the Means of a Military Expedition Against Mexico, a Territory of the King of Spain, With Whom the United States Were
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 Excerpt: ... persons coming against them. The subject is further illustrated by another authority in page 443; where he discusses the doctrine: that if many come to commit an unlawful act, and if in the pursuit of that act one of them commit murder or manslaughter, they are all guilty that are of that party that committed the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 Excerpt: ... persons coming against them. The subject is further illustrated by another authority in page 443; where he discusses the doctrine: that if many come to commit an unlawful act, and if in the pursuit of that act one of them commit murder or manslaughter, they are all guilty that are of that party that committed the disorder. But he adds that it must be a killing in pursuit of that unlawful act, that they were all engaged in. As in the case of the lord Dacre: they all come with an intent to steal the deer; and consequently the law presumes, they come all with intent to oppose all that should hinder them in that design; and consequently when one killed the keeper, it is presumed to be the act of all, because pursuant to that intent. The reason, of their being all involved in equal guilt, is that they all went together on one common object and meant to oppose all who should endeavour to prevent them; and the act being done in one part of the park is considered the act of all. In page 537, the doctrine is thus further stated: "It has been before observed, that upon the statute of 39 Elizabeth, cap. 15. though A and B be both present and consenting to the breaking in and entering of a house to rob, and A only enters into the house, and B stands by; A shall be ousted of his clergy, but B shall have his clergy; because A only entered the house; and the words of this statute extend only to him that actually enters the house; yet if A and B be present and consenting to a robbery in or near the highway, or to a burglary, though A only actually commits the robbery or actually breaks and enters the house, and B perchance be watching at another place near, or be about a robbery hard by, which he effects not, yet they are both robbers and burglars; and both shall be ...
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