 | Francis Wollaston - 1795 - 188 pages
...was capital ; and they were all executed. The words of the statute are> " If any person or persons shall " wilfully and maliciously shoot at any person " in any dwelling-house, or other place, every " person so offending, being thereof lawfully " convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony,... | |
 | Sir Michael Foster - 1809 - 504 pages
...all was capital; and they were all executed. The words of the statute are, " If any person or persons shall wilfully and maliciously shoot at any person in any dwelling-house, or other place, every person so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - 1814 - 608 pages
...was capital, and they were all executed. The words of the statute are, " if any person, or persons shall wilfully and maliciously shoot at any person in any dwelling-house, or other place, every person so offending, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony,... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1814 - 470 pages
...any house, barn, or outhouse, or to any hovel, cock, mow, or stack of corn, straw, hay, or wood ; or shall wilfully and maliciously shoot at any person in any dwelling-house or other place; or shall knowingly send any letter, without any name subscribed thereto, or signed with a fictitious... | |
 | Thomas Leach - 1815 - 706 pages
...on which it is framed in very few and very clear words ; which are, " that if any person or persons shall wilfully and maliciously shoot at any person in any dwelling-house or other place, he shall be adjudged guilty of felony, without benefit of clergy." The word maliciously is made to constitute the... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1819 - 710 pages
...Cro. CC 84, 267. Starkie 400, 1. Offence. Among the provisions of 9 Geo. I. c. 22. it is enacted, that if any person shall wilfully and maliciously shoot...shall be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. And any one who shall forcibly rescue another, lawfiilly in the custody of any officer or other person,... | |
 | Harold Nuttall Tomlins - 1819 - 582 pages
...maim, disfigure, or to do some grievous bodily Harm. (And see Tide MAYHEM.) If any person or persons shall wilfully and maliciously shoot at any person in any dwelling-house or other place, or shall forcibly rescue any person being lawfully in custody of any officer or oilier person for any... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1819 - 542 pages
...convicted, though the party who acOffence. Among the provisions of 9 Geo. 1. c. 22. it is enacted, that if any person shall wilfully and maliciously shoot at any person in any dwelling house or other place, he shall be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. And any one... | |
 | William Hough - 1825 - 1028 pages
...Wilfully and Maliciously Shooting at.} By the 9 Geo. I, cap. 22, sec. i (349), any person '• who shall wilfully and maliciously shoot at any person, in any dwelling-house, or other place, or by gift or promise of money, or other reward, procure any of HM's subjects to join him or them in... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1826 - 780 pages
...may be ^"LT1 ut either the killing or maiming such person. It enacts, that if any person or persons " shall wilfully and maliciously shoot at any " person in any dwelling-house, or other place :" or shall by gift, or promise of money, or other reward, procure any subject to join him or them,... | |
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It then goes on to enact that ' if any person or persons shall wilfully or maliciously shoot at any person in any dwelling-house or other place, he shall suffer death as in cases of felony without benefit of the clergy. 
