Edward II., which enacts that a prisoner who breaks prison shall be guilty of felony, does not extend to a prisoner who breaks out when the prison is on fire, ' for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt. The Central Law Journal - Seite 3541921Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1913 - 1100 Seiten
...prison should be guilty of felony, was held not to apply to n prisoner who broke out when the prison was on fire, "for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." The court must consider the text of the Sherman act In the light of the common law nnd the law of this... | |
| United States - 1916 - 1266 Seiten
...broke prison should be guilty of felony did not extend to a prisoner who broke out when the prison was on fire, " for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." Those instances were cited in what is perhaps the leading American case exemplifying the rule that... | |
| 1917 - 308 Seiten
...crime of jail breaking. The judges made short work of the prosecution, observing that the prisoner was "not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." More ancient and even better known is the incident narrated by Pufendorf of the law of Bologna whereby... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1921 - 688 Seiten
...prisoner who breaks prison shall be guilty of felony, does not extend to a prisoner who breaks out whe" the prison is on fire — 'for he is not to be hanged beca he would not stay to be burnt.'" And in United Sti..cs v. Jin Fuey May, 241 US 394, 401, we said:... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1921 - 684 Seiten
...prisoner who breaks prison shall be guilty of felony, does not extend to a prisoner who breaks out whe™ the prison is on fire — 'for he is not to be hanged bece he would not stay to be burnt.'" And in United St cs v. Jin Fuey Moy, 241 US 394, 401, we said:... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1922 - 668 Seiten
...of a person that fell down in the street in a fit. The same common sense accepts the ruling, citeu by Plowden, that the statute of 1 Edward II, which...be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt.' " And in United States v. Jin Fuey Moy, 241 US 394, 401, 36 Sup. Ct. 658, 659 (60 L. Ed. 1061, Ann.... | |
| Westel Woodbury Willoughby, John Archibald Fairlie, Frederic Austin Ogg - 1922 - 778 Seiten
...street in a fit. The same common sense accepts the ruling, cited by Plowden, that the Statute of 1st Edward II., which enacts that a prisoner who breaks...be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt.' " United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482. 7s 255 US 52. Section 5278 of course supplements Article iv,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1922 - 1168 Seiten
...street in a fit. The same common sense accepts the ruling, cited by Plowden, that the Statute of 1st Edward II., which enacts that a prisoner who breaks...on fire, — 'for he is not to be hanged because he wonld not stay to be burnt.' " And in United States v. Jin Fuey Moy, 241 U. S. 394, 401, 60 L. ed.... | |
| 1922 - 1084 Seiten
...the streets should be punished with the utmost severity' did not extend to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street In a...hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." " The judgment is reversed, with the direction to sustain the demurrer to the plea. (276 P.) begun within... | |
| 1921 - 500 Seiten
...Injury or wrong, be by a literal construction punished or endamaged." In the United States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482, 486 (19 L. Ed. 278), this court said: "All...succeeding years as well. That such a law was enacted and did7 actually yield the vast sum of money which it was intended to yield, is a credit to those who... | |
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