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1826. April 10
Penal Code
B.1. General Titles
Ch. IV. Instruments of delinquency
§.
Incorporeal instruments
applicable to
the procurement of
corporeal instruments
of delinquency
Art For the procurement and application of
corporeal instruments of delinquency various incorporeal
ones may be employed by the principal
delinquent.
Examples
Employing children
by intimidation.
story of the
drowned by being
shown a path covered
by the tide before they
could escape —
For destruction of life or property by
explosion: In example in a room stocked
with gunpowder in large masses, with the
like in grains strewed upon the floor, a young
child may be employed by intimidation
or remuneration for instance by being told,
that fruit was placed there for him, an
insane person, by being assured that he
will find there an object of his aversion or
affection, or even the intended victim himself
by any of which though false,
the falsehood is not, in his instance, exposed to
detection. To this point applies the fact related
by . A company of strangers
just landed from a vessel were upon the lookout
for a path through which they might make
their way to the top of an precipice
The path pointed out to them was to his knowledge
whose knowledge?
a path that would before it could be passed,
would be covered by the . They pursued it
and were drowned. Thus perished both quick
a good Christian lawyer, these infidel Jews
there then stand exemplified, three of the four
in corporeal instruments of delinquency applied
by the same principle to the purpose of converting into corporeal
instruments of delinquency, to many different persons. The fourth might be
added by supposing restraint applied to the several persons in any of those ways,
for the prevention of the catastrophe. memo. Example of physical
force to be added here.
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