 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 Central Law Journal - Σελίδα 3541921Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1902 - 1158 σελίδες
...shall be guilty of felony, does not extend to a prisoner who breaks out when the prison is on flre, for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." In the decision from which we quote the foregoing, a mall carrier was arrested by a state officer on... | |
 | 1903 - 1132 σελίδες
...guilty of felony, does not ox tond to a prisoner who breaks out when the prison is on fire, for IIP is not 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... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - 1965 - 970 σελίδες
...breaks prison is guilty of a felony, did not extend to a prisoner who breaks out because the prison was on fire — "for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." 8 We shall therefore briefly review the history of the legislation under reference 7 to determine whether... | |
 | James Gordley, Arthur Taylor von Mehren - 2006 - 648 σελίδες
...that a person may escape from a burning gaol notwithstanding a statute making prison-breach a felony, 'for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt.' [footnote omitted] Such cases illustrate the very narrow limits with which the pleas of necessity may... | |
 | Charles Gaines - 2006 - 422 σελίδες
...shall be guilty of felony does not extend to the prisoner who brakes out of prison when the prison was on fire, "for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay and be burnt." A like common sense will sanction the ruling we make, that the act of Congress which... | |
 | 1893 - 460 σελίδες
...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 \ve think that a like common sense will sanction the ruling we make, that the act of Congress which... | |
 | 1928 - 1036 σελίδες
...prisoner as a felon who broke prison did not extend to a prisoner who broke out when the prison was on fire, 'for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burned.' Similar language to that in Kirby's Case was used in Carlisle v. United States, 16 Fall- 147,... | |
 | 1882 - 964 σελίδες
...that it did not apply to one breaking out when the prison was on fire, observing that the prisoner was "not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." And in illustration of this doctrine the construction given to the Bolognian law against drawing blood... | |
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