CRM/LAW C144 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Statutory Interpretation, False Imprisonment, Quackery
8 Mar 2016
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Defendant indicted for the murder of a boy, his son. Alleged they willfully set fire to a house and shop, this act has caused the death of the boy. On the 17th of that month, the house was burnt down. Set fire to house in three or four different. Prior to the fire, the defendant had insured the life of the boy, and other if his belonging places. Two prisoners were indicted for the willful murder of the young boy. So to cheat the insurance policy (intent was to cheat insurance policy: conduct by which their knowledge was likely to cause the death and was therefore dangerous. Either case, prisoners are guilty of willful murder. His definition: murder is any act known to be dangerous to life and likely in itself to cause death done for the purpose of a felony which causes death should be murder,
