The Common Law eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 446 pages of information about The Common Law.

The Common Law eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 446 pages of information about The Common Law.

41/2 General View of the Criminal Law of England, p. 99.

43/1 Wharton, Crim.  Law, (8th ed.) Section 8, n. 1.

43/2 Ibid., Section 7.

43/3 Even the law recognizes that this is a sacrifice.  Commonwealth v.  Sawin, 2 Pick. (Mass.) 547, 549.

47/1 Cf. 1 East, P.C. 294; United States v.  Holmes, 1 Wall.  Jr. 1; 1 Bishop, Crim.  Law, Sections 347-349, 845 (6th ed.); 4 Bl.  Comm. 31.

51/1 Art. 223.

51/2 General View of the Criminal Law of England, p. 116.

53/1 Harris, Criminal Law, p. 13.

53/2 Steph.  Dig.  Crim.  Law, Art. 223, Illustration (6), and n. 1.

56/1 4 Bl.  Comm. 192.

57/1 Cf. 4 Bl.  Comm. 197.

58/1 Reg. v.  Hibbert, L.R. 1 C.C. 184.

59/1 Reg. v.  Prince, L.R. 2 C.C. 154.

59/2 Commonwealth v.  Hallett, 103 Mass. 452.

60/1 Stephen, Dig.  Cr.  Law, Art. 223, Illustr. (5); Foster, 294, 295.

60/2 Cf.  Gray’s case, cited 2 Strange, 774.

60/3 Steph.  Dig., Art. 223, Illustr. (1).

60/4 Steph.  Dig., Art. 223, Illustr. (8).

60/5 Rex v.  Mastin, 6 C.&P. 396.  Cf.  Reg. v.  Swindall, 2 C. & K. 230.

60/6 4 Bl.  Comm. 192.

62/1 Steph.  Dig.  Cr.  Law, Art. 225.

62/2 Rex v.  Shaw, 6 C.&P. 372.

62/3 Rex v.  Oneby, 2 Strange, 766, 773.

62/4 Rex v.  Hayward, 6 C.&P. 157.

63/1 Commonwealth v.  Walden, 3 Cush. (Mass.) 558.  Cf.  Steph.  Gen. View of the Crim.  Law, 84.

64/1 2 Bishop Crim.  Law, Section 14 (6th ed.).

64/2 Glanv., Lib.  XIV. c. 4.

64/3 Bract., fol. 146b.

64/4 Ibid.

64/5 2 East, P.C., c. 21, Sections 7, 8, pp. 1027, 1031.

66/1 1 Bishop, Crim.  Law, Section 735 (6th ed.).

66/2 Reg. v.  Dilworth, 2 Moo. & Rob. 531; Reg. v.  Jones, 9 C.&P. 258.  The statement that a man is presumed to intend the natural consequences of his acts is a mere fiction disguising the true theory.  See Lecture IV.

67/1 Reg. v.  Taylor, 1 F. & F. 511.

67/2 Reg. v.  Roberts, 25 L. J. M. C. 17; S.C.  Dearsly, C., C. 539.

68/1 Lewis v.  The State, 35 Ala. 380.

69/1 See M’Pherson’s Case, Dearsly & Bell, 197, 201, Bramwell, B.

69/2 Cf. 1 Bishop, Crim.  Law, Sections 741-745 (6th ed.).

71/1 2 Bishop, Crim.  Law, Section 758 (6th ed.).

73/1 Cf.  Stephen, General View of Criminal Law of England, 49 et seq.

73/2 Cf.  Stephen, General View, 49-52; 2 East, P.C. 553.

74/1 Rex v.  Cabbage, Russ. & Ry. 292.

74/2 Cf. 4 Bl.  Comm. 224; Steph.  Dig.  Crim.  Law, Arts. 316, 319.

74/3 Cf. 4 Bl.  Comm. 227, 228.

75/1 1 Starkie, Cr.  Pl. 177.  This doctrine goes further than my argument requires.  For if burglary were dealt with only on the footing of an attempt, the whole crime would have to be complete at the moment of breaking into the house.  Cf.  Rex v.  Furnival, Russ. & Ry. 445.

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