See More's Utopia p. 50.
for some good hints. Fugitives might, in such a bill, be obliged to
work two days for every one they absent themselves.
(* 15) The shooting at a wild fowl, and killing a man, is
homicide by misadventure. Shooting at a pullet, without any design to
take it away, is manslaughter; and with a design to take it away, is
murder. 6 Sta. tr. 222. To shoot at the poultry of another, and
thereby set fire to his house, is arson, in the opinion of some.
Dalt. c. 116. 1. Hale's P. C. 569. c. contra.
(* 16) Beccaria. 32. Suicide. Homicides are, 1. Justifiable. 2.
Excusable. 3. Felonious. For the last, punishments have been already
provided. The first are held to be totally without guilt, or rather
commendable. The second are in some cases not quite unblamable. These
should subject the party to marks of contrition; viz., the killing of
a man in defence of property; so also in defence of one's person,
which is a species of excusable homicide; because, although cases may
happen where these also are commendable, yet most frequently they are
done on too slight appearance of danger; as in return for a blow,
kick, fillip, &c.; or on a person's getting into a house, not animo
furandi, but perhaps veneris causa, &c.
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