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An Act to reform and amend the Penal Laws of the State of Tennessee. 1829 27 (1829)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0067 and id is 1 raw text is: nthy iave surveyed his occupancy according to law; or shall hereafter survey the same, he may have the whatnecessa- same laid down on the general plan of the district, ry !-) obtain 4 and said survey shall be fully sufficient to enable grant. him, her, or them to get a grant when the same shall be entered under this act, without the expense of an additional survey, unless the occupant shall think proper to alter the lines thereof to make it fit a war- rant of less size than the survey. EPHRAIM H. FOSTER, Speaker of the House of Representatioei JOEL WALKER, Speaker of the Senatea beceuber 30, 1829. CHAPTER XXIII. . 'N ACTto reform and amend the Penal Laws of the State of Tennessee. SEc. 1. Be it enacted bY the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That all offences hereafter enu- merated, are hereby declared to be felonies, and shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labour in the Jail and Penitentiary House established in this State, as hereinafter prescribed, except the crime of murder in the first degree, and accessarics before the fact to such crime, which shall b punished )ith death as heretofore. SEc. 2. If any person of soundsh mory and dis- OrMurder. cretion, unlawfully kill any reasonablA creature in being, and under the peace of the shite with malice aforethought, either express or implied, such person shall be deemed guilty of murder. SEc. 3. All murder which shall be perpetrated .irst and s. by means of poison or b lying in wait or by any 0- cond degcn. ther kind of wilful, deliberate malicious, and pre- meditated killing, or Nichshall be committed in the perpetratioi- of of attempt to perpe trate any ar- son, rape, robbery, burglary or larceny shall be deemed murder inthe first degree, and all other kinds of murder shall be deenied murder in the se- cond degree, and thejury befoie whom any person indicted for murder shall be tried, shall, if they find stkch person guilty thereof, ascertain in their verdict. Digitized from Best Copy Available

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