 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 - Halaman 3541921Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | United States. Attorney-General - 1866 - 584 halaman
...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 halaman
...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 halaman
...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 halaman
...be guilty 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 halaman
...a 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 halaman
...a 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' ly... | |
 | 1895 - 2084 halaman
...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... | |
 | Herman Diederik J. van Schevichaven - 1882 - 354 halaman
...a 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 in his... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1882 - 902 halaman
...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... | |
 | 1883 - 818 halaman
...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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