 | California - 1881 - 806 Seiten
...neither is it murder, for there is no previous malice, but it is manslaughter. * * * So if a mnu takes another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him directly upon the spot, * * * it is manslaughter." 4 Bl. Com. 101. Voluntary manslaughter differs from... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - 1883 - 908 Seiten
...shall be settled for the benefit of the children, or the wife. See further HUSBAND AND WIFE. Where a man finds another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him or her, in the first transport of passion, he is only guiky of manslaughter, and that in the lowest... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1884 - 1012 Seiten
...Wayne MacVeigh with him), for the prisoner. On the trial, after charging the jury upon the law, where a man finds another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him, GILPIN, C. J., said: — The other ground of defence relied on by the prisoner, is insanity ; and,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1885 - 944 Seiten
...the very aft, but it was severely proximate, and fine distinctions need not be made. " If a man takes another in the act of adultery with his wife and kills him directly upon the spot, though this was allowed by the laws of Solon (Plutarch in Life of Solon), as... | |
 | California - 1886 - 992 Seiten
...yet neither is it murder, for there is no previous malice, but it is manslaughter 80 if a man takes another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him directly upon the spot, .... it is manslaughter: " 4 Bla. Com. 191. Voluntary manslaughter differs... | |
 | 1902 - 1196 Seiten
...that the law concludes it cannot be borne in the first transport of passion. This Is where or when a man finds another in the act of adultery with his wife; when, if he kills him In the first transport of passion thereby aroused, he is only guilty of manslaughter.... | |
 | Sir Henri Elzéar Taschereau - 1888 - 1294 Seiten
...judgment and reason than of violent and ungovernable passion. — R. v. Maynard, 6 C. & P. 157. Where a man finds another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him or her in the first transport of passion, he is only guilty of manslaughter and that in the lowest... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1888 - 732 Seiten
...or feud, if sufficient time has elapsed for the blood to cool. Gladden v. State, 12 Fla. 562. If one man finds another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him on the spot, the crime will be manslaughter. But if the adulterer is not slain until sufficient time... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely - 1889 - 800 Seiten
...shall be settled for the benefit of the children, or the wife. See further HUSBAND AND WIFE. Where a man finds another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him or her, in the Jirst transport of passion, he is only guilty of manslaughter, and that in the lowest... | |
 | John C. Devereux - 1891 - 432 Seiten
...manslaughter. 56. What if a man takes another in the act of adultery with his wife?—191. If a man takes another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him directly upon the spot ; though this was allowed by the laws of Solon, as likewise by the Roman civil... | |
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So, if a man takes another in the act of adultery with his wife, and kills him directly upon the spot... 
