State v. Horton.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions

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1. “A. shooteth at the poultry of B. and by accident killeth a man; if his intention was to steal the poultry, *Page 514 which must be collected from circumstances, it will be murder by reason of that felonious intent; but if it was done wantonly and without that intention, it will be barely manslaughter. The rule I have laid down supposeth that the act from which death ensued was malum in se . For if it was barely malum prohibitum , as shooting at game by a person not qualified by statute law to keep or use a gun for that purpose, the case of a person so offending will fall under the same rule as that of a qualified man. For the statutes prohibiting the destruction of the game under certain penalties will not, in a question of this kind, enhance the accident beyond its intrinsic moment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. S. v. . Trollinger

2. “naturally evil as adjudged by the sense of a civilized community,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Anderson