Unatic

persons, is one who has had an understanding, but who, by disease, grief, or other accident, has lost the use of his reason. A lunatic is properly one who has had lucid intervals, sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not. 4 Co. 123; 1 Bl. Com. 304; Bac. Abr. Idiots, &c. (A); 1 Russ. on Crimes, 8; Shelf. on Lun. 4; Merlin, mot Démence; Fonb. Eq. Index, h. t.; 15 Vin. Ab. 131; 8 Com. Dig. 721; 1 Supp. to Ves. jr. 94, 130, 869, 404; 2 Supp. to Ves. jr- 51, 106, 151, 360; 1 Vern. 9, 137, 262; Louis. Code, tit. 9,c. 1; and articles Lucid Interval; Lunacy. “LYING. IN WAIT, being in ambush for the purpose of murdering another. Lying in wait is evidence of deliberation and intention. Where murder is divided into degrees, as in Pennsylvania, lying in wait is such evidence of malice, that it makes the killing, when it takes place, murder in the first degree. Vide Dane’s Ab. Index, h. t.