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An Act providing for the punishment of certain crimes and misdemeanours. 1826 708 (1826)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0100 and id is 1 raw text is: OF DELAWARE. CHAPTER CCCLXII. CHAP. CCCLXII. AN *ACT providing for the punishment of certain 1826. crimes and nasdemeunours. SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED.by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in Generalldssembly met, That the crimes and mis- demeanours, hereinafer mentioned, shall be punish- ed as hereinafter prescribed, that is to say,- If any person or persons shall commit treason a.1. rreason. gainst this State; every p'erson so offcnding, upon conviction thereof, shall suffur death. If any person or persons shall commit the crime. Murder. of nuirder, every person so offending shall be dee- Sec 10, b. med gilty of feony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall buffer death :-And also if any person or per-stroke in this sons, at any place within this State, shall, wilfilly .Lte and -death in ano- and malicously, shoot, strike, stab, wound or poisonther; any person, vho shall, within one year afterward, die of such shooting, striking, stabbing, wounding or poisoning at any place without this State,-every per- son so. offinding, (notwithstanding the death shall happen without the State,) shall be deemed guilty of murder and felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall suffer death. If the killing of a person shall be attended by cir-3. Man- cumstances of alleviation, so that it shall not amount Ihter to murder, but shall be the crime by law denomina. ted manslaughter, there shall be two degrees of the crime, to wit, manslaughter of the first degree, and manslaughter of the second degree:- Voluntary manslaughter, excepting manslaughtero1 the first voluntarily committed by a husband on a persondegre,- found in the 'act of adultery with his wife,-man- slaughter involuntarily committed, in the prosecu- tion of an unlawful act or purpose, but not of such a character as to constitute the offence murder,-and manslaughter involuntarily committed in the per. formance of a lawfit act, but under circumstances, or in a manner, or by means, which cause an apparent danger of inflicting death, without using due precau? 70a

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