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I would give my right hand to undo its own deed to-day if that were possible!" groaned the homicide. "Why should you disturb yourself? but perhaps this is your first affair of the kind?" calmly inquired the colonel. "My first and last! I do not know how any one can engage in a second one after feeling what it is to kill a man." "You feel so because it is your first affair.
I am bound to tell you, that, having so far only kept you as a matter of precaution, I shall issue now an order for your arrest." "You mean I am to be put in jail?" "Yes, until the court shall decide whether you are guilty of murder, or of involuntary homicide."
A similar record has been reported of a student who attempted during the night to stab his teacher; the man was disarmed and locked up in another portion of the building; but he had not the slightest remembrance of the events of the night. Yellowlees speaks of homicide by a somnambulist.
All the sorrier in that he had not even been able to get before the jury the purely sentimental excuses for the homicide, for he could only do this by calling Rosalina to the stand, which would have enabled the prosecution to cross-examine her in regard to the purchase of the pistol and the delivery of it to her husband the strongest evidence of premeditation.
Temperance is first upon the list. Intemperance in a physician partakes of the guilt of homicide, for the muddled brain may easily make a fatal blunder in a prescription and the unsteady hand transfix an artery in an operation. Tippling doctors have been too common in the history of medicine. Paracelsus was a sot, Radcliffe was much too fond of his glass, and Dr.
As we rode through the streets they actually ran at the sides of the carriage, keeping pace with the horses until we drove them off by brandishing parasols, umbrellas and similar weapons of defense. We could not go to a mosque or the museum without finding them lying in wait for us, until we became so exasperated that homicide would have been justifiable.
"Why, we must cage him in some way," replied Becker; "to let him loose again would be to create fresh uneasiness for ourselves. To kill him would be almost a kind of homicide." "Can I come in now?" inquired Willis, thrusting his head into the gallery. "Yes, with perfect safety." "You see, when Master Ernest begins to spin, he gets into the chapter of miracles, and forgets that we have ears."
They doubtless were solicitous for his recovery, that he and the Laniers might be brought to ultimate justice. What respect could be expected of these for pledges given to one who had conspired against a helpless orphan? Why should they not speed the conviction of him whose intrigues were accessory to this double homicide? How hard to conceive of better than self!
This is perhaps demonstrated by the fact that in New York County a higher percentage of women are convicted of homicide than of men. Juries take the little stock in irresistible impulses and emotional or temporary insanity save as a cloak to cover an unrighteous acquittal. In no other class of cases does "luck" play so large a part in the final disposition of the prisoner.
Having obtained the appointment of Prefect of Ying T'ien, he had no sooner arrived at his post than a charge of manslaughter was laid before his court. This had arisen from some rivalry between two parties in the purchase of a slave-girl, either of whom would not yield his right; with the result that a serious assault occurred, which ended in homicide.
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