| Georgia - 1837 - 1082 σελίδες
...in advancement of public justice ; in self-defence, or in defence of habitation, property or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors by violence or surprise to commit a felony on either ; or against any persons who manifestly intend and endeavor in a riotous and tumultuous... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1841 - 834 σελίδες
...common law on this subject is thus laid down by Mr. East : A man may repel force by force in defence of his person, habitation, or property ; against one...by violence or surprise, to commit a known felony, such as rape, robbery, arson, burglary, or the like. In these cases he is not obliged to retreat, but... | |
| Illinois - 1845 - 766 σελίδες
...killing of a human being in necessary self defence or in the defence of habitation, property or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors by violence or surprise to commit a known felony, such as murder, rape, robbery, burglary and the like, upon either person or property, or against any... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1853 - 884 σελίδες
...homicide is the killing of a human being in necessary self-defence, or in defence of habitation, person or property, against one who manifestly intends or...by violence or surprise, to commit a known felony. A bare fear of those offences to prevent which the homicide ia alleged to have been committed, shall... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1888 - 666 σελίδες
...necessary self-defence, or in defence of habitation, person or property against one who manifests, intends, or endeavors by violence or surprise, to commit a known felony ; and, if in this case the jury believe from the evidence that the defendant had reasonable cause to... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1884 - 922 σελίδες
...that justifiable homicide is the killing of a human being in self-defence or in defence of his person or property against one who manifestly intends or endeavors by violence or surprise to commit a felony on either ; you will also see from the sections I -have read that a bare fear of any of these... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1849 - 680 σελίδες
...justifiable homicide to kill a human being in self-defence or in defence of habitation, property, or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors, by violence or surprise, to commit a felony on either. The 13th section declares, that " a bare fear of any of those offences, to prevent... | |
| Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1851 - 838 σελίδες
...Pleas of the Crown, lays down the principle in these words: "A man may repel force by force in defence of his person, habitation or property, against one...by violence or surprise to commit a known felony, such as murder, rape, robbery, arson and the like, upon either. In these cases he is not obliged to... | |
| 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 - 1860 - 600 σελίδες
...Com. 180. A man may repel force by force in defense of his person, habitation or property, against any one who manifestly intends or endeavors by violence...surprise to commit a known felony on either, and if he kill him in so doing, it is justifiable homicide: — 1 East PC 271; Foster, 273 ; 2 J3ish. Cr.... | |
| California, Selucius Garfielde, Frederick A. Snyder - 1853 - 1108 σελίδες
...being in justifiable hominecessary self-defence, or in defence of habitation, property, or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors, by violence or surprise, to commit a felony, or against any person or persons who COMPILED LAWS OF CALIFORNIA. Killing In selfdefence, when... | |
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