...public peace, too careful of the lives of the subjects, to adopt so contentious a system ; nor will suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, would also be punished by death. In these instances of justifiable homicide, it may be observed that...

...it is lawful to repel that force by the death of the party attempting. Yet the law will not suffer any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, would also be punished by death. Excusable Excusable homicide, imports by its name, some fault, error,...

...(p. 494, citing Blackstone's Com. c.4, p. 182,) lays down the doctrine that "the common law will not suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, 35. Homicide necessarily done by any one in defence of his dwelling-house or that of another, against...

...community, is tender of the public peace, and careful of the lives of the subjects ; " that it will not suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, would also be punished by death." (Vol. iv. Commentaries, p. 182.) "The law sets so high a value upon...

...public peace, too careful of the lives of the subjects, to adopt so contentious a system ; nor will suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, would also be punished by death8." § 8. -With cases of justifiable homicide, however, gentlemen of...

...lawful to repel that force by the death of the party making such attempt ; and that the law will not suffer, with impunity, any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, would also be punished with death. You will compare the evidence with this criterion. From the several...

...community, is tender of the public peace, and careful of the lives of the subjects; "that it will not suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by death, unless the same, if committed, would also be punished by death." (Commentaries, vol. iv. 182.) "The law sets so high a value upon,...

...lord justice clerk concurred. The general doctrine of the law, even hi England, was that it will not suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by...committed, could be punished with death. Poaching could not be so punished. Springguns, his lordship observed, were secret, deadly, and at the same time...

...lord justice clerk concurred. The general doctrine of the law, even in England, was that it will not suffer with impunity any crime to be prevented by...committed, could be punished with death. Poaching could not be so punished. Springguns, his lordship observed, were secret, deadly, and at the same time...

...BLACKSTONE'S COM. 181. " The rule as laid down by Sir Wm. Blackstone, that the law will not " suffer any crime to be prevented by death unless the same, if committed, would be punished by death, is incorrect. Gray v. Combs, 7 Marshall, Ken. R. 478. BLACKSTONE'S (WM.)...