 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 Ohio Law Journal - Σελίδα 1061883Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | United States. Attorney-General - 1866 - 584 σελίδες
...prison, but a prisoner who forced his way out when the jail was on fire did not come within that law ; he was not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt. This was not the result of that strict interpretation which is given to penal statutes so as to favor... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1962 - 964 σελίδες
...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." And we think that a like common sense will sanction the ruling we make, that the act of Congress which... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 σελίδες
...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." And we think that a like common sense will sanction the ruling we make, that the act of Congress which... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 σελίδες
...of felony, does not extend to a prisoner who breaks out when the prison is on tire — " for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." And we think that a like common sense will sanction the ruling we make, that the act of Congress which... | |
 | Franklin Fiske Heard - 1871 - 234 σελίδες
...prisoner who breaks prison is guilty of felony ; but if the prison be on fire, this is not so, " for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." * 1 2 Saund. 305 c. 6th ed. 8 Tit. Toll, last case of the title. STYLE, the reporter, from his own... | |
 | 1873 - 410 σελίδες
...prisoner who breaks prison is guilty of felony ; but if the prison be on fire, this is not so, " for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." The judgment in a very recent leading case, in the Court of Exchequer Chamber, concludes thus terse'... | |
 | 1921 - 510 σελίδες
...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 FUTURE OF THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX. When the United States entered the war in 1917, there arose... | |
 | 1882 - 1916 σελίδες
...England construed the law which enacted that a prisoner breaking prison should be deemed guilty of a felony, holding that it did not apply to one breaking...illustration of this doctrine the construction given to tbe Bolognian law against drawing blood in the street is often cited. That law enacted that whoever... | |
 | Herman Diederik J. van Schevichaven - 1882 - 354 σελίδες
...prisoner who breaks prison is guilty of felony ; but if the prison be on fire, this is not so, " for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." * The form of a denial or traverse : absque hoc quod, etc. AN INDICTMENT QUASHED. flRADOCK relates... | |
 | 1884 - 948 σελίδες
...guilty of felony, does not extend to the 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.' " Tested by the above and other well-settled rules of construction, let us endeavor to ascertain whether... | |
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