A Treatise on the Law of Homicide in the United States: To Which Is Appended a Series of Leading Cases (Classic Reprint)

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For some years after the exhaustion of the first edition of this work, I declined to revise it for republication. The tapic, so far as concerns its general principles, was discussed in my Treatise on Criminal Law; and in the successive editions of that work the intermediate changes of the law in this respect are noted. The period, how ever, has now arrived, when, in view of the fact that the first edition of the Homicide is still frequently cited in the courts, its revision and correction are imperative. The importance of the interests at stake demands that the applicatory cases should be stated at large and crit ically scanned; the changes which the last few years have wrought in the juridical conception of the Law of Homicide are so fundamental, that it is proper not only that they should be correctly recapitulated but that they should be fully discussed. Of these changes the following are the chief.

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