 | William Oldnall Russell - 1826 - 780 str.
...some act performed without lawful authority. SECT. T. Cases of Provocation. Whenever death ensues from sudden transport of passion, or heat of blood upon a reasonable provocation, and without malice, it is considered as solely imputable to human infirmity ; and the offence will be manslaughter, (g)... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1832 - 716 str.
...which they consider as the latter crime, with us amount to murder. Whenever death with them ensues from a sudden transport of passion, or heat of blood, upon a reasonable provocation, the offence is considered as manslaughter.1 Thus even threatening words will be held as sufficient... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1841 - 834 str.
...mitigated degrees of manslaughter, and the punishment was merely nominal. (<n) Whenever death ensues from sudden transport of passion, or heat of blood upon a reasonable provocation, and without malice, it is considered as solely imputable to human infirmity, and therefore excusable in the eye of the... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1843 - 1068 str.
...Words of provocation. Provocation by assault. Cases of Provocation. Whenever death ensues from the sudden transport of passion, or heat of blood upon a reasonable provocation, and without malice, it is considered as solely imputable to human infirmity ; and the offence will be manslaughter, (g)... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, West Hughes Humphreys - 1849 - 864 str.
...Russell 616 ; 1st Hale 45 li. Copeland vs. Tlie State, 7 Humph. R. 494. Whenever death ensues from a sudden transport of passion or heat of blood upon a reasonable provocation and without malice, it is solely imputable to human infirmity, and the offence will be manslaughter. 1 Russell 700 ; Steadman's... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - 1853 - 1006 str.
...Hawk. c. 31, sa. 34, 42. (b) 1 Hale, 473. Kitting under Provocation. [1] Whenever death ensues from the sudden transport of passion, or heat of blood upon a reasonable provocation, and without malice, it is considered as solely imputable to human infirmity; and the oflenee will be manslaughter. It should... | |
 | John H. Colby - 1868 - 796 str.
...cruel and unusual manner.4 The general rule at common law was that, whenever death ensued from the sudden transport of passion or heat of blood, upon a reasonable provocation, it was considered as solely imputable to human infirmity, and the offence was manslaughter; for it... | |
 | L. B. Horrigan, Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1874 - 1132 str.
...then he must be guilty of manslaughter or murder. 2. Manslaughter is where a person kills another upon a sudden transport of passion or heat of blood, upon a reasonable provocation and without malice ; as, for instance, such a sudden attack upon a man's person, that his mind becomes immediately inflamed,... | |
 | Canada, Sir Henri Elzéar Taschereau - 1874 - 844 str.
...without lawful authority. — 1. Russ. loc. cit. CASES OF PROVOCATION. Whenever death ensues from the sudden transport of passion, or heat of blood upon a reasonable provocation, and without malice, it is considered as solely imputable to human infirmity : and the offence will be manslaughter. It... | |
 | Canada - 1874 - 1416 str.
...without lawful authority.— 1. Russ. loc. cit. CASES OF PROVOCATION. Whenever death ensues from the sudden transport of passion, or heat of blood upon a reasonable provocation, and without malice, it is considered as solely imputable to human infirmity : and the offence will be manslaughter. It... | |
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It should be remembered that the person sheltering himself under this plea of provocation must make out the circumstances of alleviation to the satisfaction of the court and jury unless they arise out... 
