Premeditation

The act of meditating m advance; deliberation upon a contemplated act; plotting or contriving; a design formed to do something before it is done.

See Sinte v. Spivey, 132 N. C. 989, 48 S. E. 475; Fahnestock v. State, 23 Ind. 231; Com. v. Perrier, 3 Phiia. (Pat) 232; Atkinson v. State, 20 Tex. 531; Sinte v. Reed, 117 Mo. 604, 23 S. W. 886; King V. State, 91 Tenn. 617, 20 S. W. 169; State v. Care, 53 Vt. 46; State v. Dowden, 118 N. C. 1145, 24 S. E. 722; Savage v. Sinte, 18 Fla. 965; Co.m. v. Drum, 58 Pa. 16; State v. Lindgrind, 33 Wash. 440, 74 Pan. 565.