Once he was summoned on a charge of homicide before the Areopagus, and he appeared in person to make his defence; but the prosecutor was afraid to present himself and abandoned the case.
When the homicide is acknowledged, but legal justification is pleaded, as when a man takes an adulterer in the act, or kills another by mistake in battle, or in an athletic contest, the prisoner is tried in the court of Delphinium.
Actions for homicide and wounding are heard, if the homicide or wounding be willful, in the Areopagus; so also in cases of killing by poison, and of arson.
The person who is charged with homicide is at all other times excluded from the temples, nor is it even lawful for him to enter the market-place; but on the occasion of his trial he enters the temple and makes his defence.
If a man who is in banishment for a homicide which admits of reconciliation incurs a further charge of killing or wounding, he is tried in Phreatto, and he makes his defence from a boat moored near the shore.
All actions for homicide come before him, and it is he that makes the proclamation requiring polluted persons to keep away from sacred ceremonies.
If so, it would supply a fresh reason for the banishment of a homicide during the years that the angry ghost of his victim might at any moment issue from its prison-house and pounce on him.
M51) The same train of thought may explain an ancient Greek custom which appears to have required that a homicide should be banished his country, and do penance for a period of eight or nine years.
But if the workman has reasonable cause to believe that the space below is a private yard from which every one is excluded, and which is used as a rubbish heap, his act is not blameworthy, and the homicide is a mere misadventure.
Murder is defined by Sir James Stephen, in his Digest of Criminal Law, /1/ as unlawful homicide with malice aforethought.
In point of fact, "blood-money" is paid to the family of the deceased person, and to save his life from their vengeance a homicide frequently becomes a mendicant on the other side of the mountains till he can gain the required sum.
When a homicide is captured he is handed over to the relatives of the slain man, who may kill him, banish him, fine him, or pardon him.
We will proceed to examine the cases of homicide recorded in the poems, which are alike numerous and remarkable.
Out of six instances of unpremeditated homicide in Homer, three[882] are committed upon relations by blood or by affinity, though not very near ones.
Among the Greek chieftains, cases ofhomicide are more frequent than those of bastardy.
Now, it seemed to me there was no particular meanness about you, and homicide isn't thought such a serious thing in my country, when it's necessary.
No; we had two men, two uniformed officers right at the homicide door to keep anyone from going in there.
That is the hull that was retained by homicide division when the other two were originally sent in with the gun.
The corridors, up and down the corridors towards the chief's office to the right of the elevator, around the elevator landing and down the corridors to the left of the elevator towards the homicide area were quite packed.
Were you aware of a suggestion that a vehicle with representatives of the Dallas homicide squad be in the motorcade, I believes behind the Vice President's car, a decision that was changed just before November 22?
There were three other FBI agents besides myself, various clerical personnel from the police department who were assigned to the homicide division.
If they weren't there, somehomicide officers were.
Is there a division of detectives separate from homicide and robbery?
One time I had the whole CID; they didn't call it CID at that time; they called it detectives' office, but I kept the homicide and robbery under my supervision during that time.
When I say we, I mean the Dallas police officers and the homicide officers working in this case.
Homicide Detective Turner was sent to the sheriff's office to represent the homicide bureau of our department and interrogating these witnesses.
I recall seeing him in another room in homicide headquarters with a couple of plainclothes people and their talking to him.
I left this to be handled by Captain Fritz who is in charge of allhomicide investigations.
And on an occasion or two as I was walking from the homicide office back to my office they would stop me here and try to interrogate me or interview me and they would have the cameras turned on me.
Will you mark that homicideoffice with an "H" on to indicate it?
Quickly suppressed shudders and low exclamations of horror followed him and the chief of the Homicide Squad from the room.
Captain Strawn greeted his former subordinate on the Homicide Squad.
Dundee followed the Chief of the Homicide Squad to one of the two windows that looked out upon the driveway.
The chief of the Homicide Squad drew a deep breath.
Late Thursday afternoon," the Chief of the Homicide Squad answered belligerently.
The vague directions of a farmer's son lost him nearly eight precious minutes, during which his friend, Captain Strawn of the Homicide Squad, might be bungling things rather badly.
Any homicide possessed of the right of clanship who could reach it, and who gave nine kye (cows) and a clopindash (a young cow) was free of the slaughter committed by him.
The law of Clan Macduff was a privilege of immunity for homicide anciently enjoyed by those who could claim kindred with Macduff, Earl of Fife, within the ninth degree.
This is perhaps demonstrated by the fact that in New York County a higher percentage of women are convicted of homicide than of men.
There was one homicide in which a bullet perforated a felt cap and penetrated the forehead of the deceased.
One quarrel resulting in homicide arose because the defendant had pointed out deceased to the police, another because the participants called each other names, and another arose out of an alleged seduction.
When no other defence to homicide is possible the claim of insanity is frequently interposed.
One man killed another who was fighting with a friend of the first, a janitor was killed in a "continuous row" which had been going on for a long time, and one homicide was committed for "nothing in particular.
The writer has prosecuted perhaps a dozen homicide and other cases where the defence was insanity.
Supposing I dug out all the homicide cases I had ever tried, what would the result show as to motive for the killing?
The writer seriously advances the suggestion that the more the brutality of a homicide indicates mental derangement the less chance the defendant has to secure an acquittal upon the plea of insanity.
If our homicide statistics related only to the white population of even the second generation born in this country we should find, I am convinced, that we are no more homicidal than France and Belgium, and less so than Italy.
State, our talesmen are unwilling to condone homicide or to act as self-constituted pardoning bodies, for they know that an obviously lawless verdict will bring down upon them the censure of the public and the press.
The murderer who has planned and executed a diabolical homicide and who has retired to obscurity and safety will very likely in course of time make a clean breast of it to some one whom he believes to be his friend.
As late as the fifteenth and sixteenth century, in cases of homicide the accused was doomed to walk over twelve burning ploughshares.
The thief and the homicide cannot be allowed to go at large.
The gentleman from Pennsylvania had said that an impressed American seaman, who should commit homicide for the purpose of liberating himself from the vessel in which he was confined, ought not to be given up as a murderer.
Had Thomas Nash been an impressed American, the homicide on board the Hermione would, most certainly, not have been a murder.
Still, it must be said in justice that we hear of very few cases of wilful homicide being perpetrated by the English among us, though, like the French, suicide is not unknown to them, but arises from different causes.
This view of the Attic procedure[332] against homicide is copied by the Platonic.
Whosoever, having intended to kill another (except in the special cases wherein homicide is justifiable), inflicts a wound which proves not mortal, is as criminal as if he had killed him.
Whoever has committed homicide upon a fellow-citizen, under these circumstances, shall be interdicted from all the temples and other public places, and shall be indicted by the nearest relatives of the deceased.
Peculiar provision is made for cases in which the person inflicting the wound is kinsman or relative of the sufferer--also for homicide under the same circumstances.
If the act be committed instantaneously, the homicide shall undergo two years' exile: if after time for deliberation, the time of exile must be extended to three years.
This increase in homicide in civilized countries, like the increase in suicide, has come after the serious breakdown of religion.
There has been an even greater increase of homicide than of suicide and for very similar reasons.
Our homicide rate here in America is a disgrace to a civilized country.
Poverty is worse in London and if anything that ought to add to the homicide rate.
White, whose long experience in European countries made his opinion of great value, declared that for homicide we were the worst country in the world, with more killings of human beings to our credit than even vendetta-ridden Corsica.
Moreau (De l'Homicide chez les enfants, 1882) cites numerous cases of children who fly into a passion if their wishes are not complied with immediately.
The fact of agglomeration explains the greater frequency of homicide in France in thickly populated districts.
Such, too, are theft and homicide during revolutions, insurrections, wars, and the conquest and exploitation of new territories and mines.
Adults convicted of Homicide in Exile, segregation self-defence for an indefinite period in some Homicide to avenge remote town or some wrong or settlement.
Melancholia is often the cause of suicide or homicide (as a species of indirect suicide).
The frequency ofhomicide in Calabria, Sicily, and Sardinia is fundamentally due to African and Oriental elements.
Adults convicted of Homicide provoked by Exile from native injury or place and from the genuine grievances town in which the victim's family live.
Whilst his thoughts were thus occupied, the Lydians appeared with the body of his son; the homicide followed.
Whilst the nuptials of this son employed his attention, an unfortunate homicide arrived at Sardis, a Phrygian by nation, and of the royal family.
As he was forbidden to hand a case over to his successor, it resulted that in the last three months of the year no accusations of homicide could be brought (Ant.
It retained jurisdiction in cases of homicide and the care of sacred olive trees.
In addition to its political functions, the council from the time of Draco, if not earlier, exercised jurisdiction in certain cases of homicide (see below, ad fin.
In this country there are many cruel and murderous people, so that no day passes but there is some homicide among them.
