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1828. Jany. 13.
Law Amendment or Penal CodePropositions
Homicide at large.
Existing System.
1.
Incongruities –
Cause, inattention
to evil of 2d. order.
2.
1. All-embracing one.
No distinction but
murder and manslaughter.
3.
2. No distinction between
non-consent
and consent.
4.
3. No distinction between
conformity
and disconformity
of design to effect.
5.
4. No distinction between
exclusively and
indiscriminately intentional.
6.
5. Extension of punishment
to acts productive
of good, pure
or preponderative:
viz –
1. Suicide.
7.
Encrease of affliction
to afflicted relatives.
8.
Palliative found in
habitual perjury.
9.
Religion held forth as
a pretence for the
perjury.
10.
Against suicide nothing
in any Gospel
or Epistle.
11.
Malice – unmeaningness
of the word.
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12.
6th Incongruity. Fixation
of times for changes
in degrees of guiltiness.
13.
Year and a day after
death.
14.
Short time fixt in
which premeditation
is supposed to have
had place.
15.
Different lengths of
time which may be
employed in meditation.
16.
Incongruity the 7th.
Deadends
17.
Here also perjury the
resource.
18.
Incongruity the 8th.
No compensation to
parties injured.
19.
Inconsistency of the
practice.
20.
Cause in primæval
barbarism.
21.
Innumerable cases
where act called
murder though
death unintentional.
22.
Never be it out of
mind that where
no intention, no
evil of 2d. order.
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