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Under Homicide may be consider'd - 1st the
intention. 2dly The subject circumstances of the party slain
subject or person slain 3d The manner means
3dly the 4thly The cause or motive. 5th
The pain of sufferance concomitant upon it.
All these make a difference on the mischief.
The mischief of the 1st order is the same in
all-cases [the 5th excepted] — What difference
they make must therefore be exemplified in
the 2d & 3d orders.
Let us begin with intention — Where there is
absolutely no intention has absolutely no place,
there is no place for punishment, for the
reasons that have been given in the Chapter
of Exemptions.
Where there is intention it may have been directed
to one or other of these purposes — that is
2d Simply To do the act, eventually fatal to the party
killed: but without any intention of its having
an effect of any kind upon him as the object
In this use the act may be said to be intentional in the 1st degree
3dly An intention to do the act, accompanied with
an intention of producing an a certain effect upon
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