...H., which enacts that a prisoner who breaks prison shall be guilty of felony, does not extend to the prisoner who breaks out when the prison is on fire,...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...

...person that fell down in the street in a fit. The same common sense Opinion of the Court — Leonard, J. accepts the ruling cited by Plowden, that the statute...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...

...yet, if a prison be ou fire, and a prisoner break it in order to save his life, he shall be excused, a He is not to be hanged, because he would not stay to be burnt The stat. 2 Geo. 3, c. 19, s. 1, enacts that " no person shall, upon any pretence whatsoever, take, kill,...

...guilty of felony. But it was held not to extend to a prisoner who broke out when the prison was on flre, "for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burned." Plowden says in his comments on Stradling v. Morgan, at page 205a, as the result of many cases...

...street In a fit. The same common sense accepts the ruling cited by Plowden, that the statute of 1 Edw. II, which enacts that a prisoner who breaks prison...to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt" And it was held that the statute under consideration, when reasonably interpreted, is not obnoxious...

...Stat. of i Edw. II, which enacted that a " prisoner who breaks prison shall be guilty of a felony," did not extend to a prisoner who breaks out when the prison...is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burned."8 And a like common sense sanctions the ruling that an act which punishes the obstruction or...

...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.' And we think that a like common sense will sanction the ruling we make, that the act of Congress which...

...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.' And we think that a like common sense will sanction the ruling we make, that the act of Congress which...

...prison shall be guilty of felony, does not extend to a prisoner who breaks out when the prison is ou 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 Coneress which...

...shall be guilty of felony, does not extend to a prisoner who breaks out when the prison is on fire, 1 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...