Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and ExpertsBlyth, Alexander Wynter
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Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts
Blyth, Alexander Wynter
Poisons
There is also a special provision, framed, evidently, with reference to
volatile and stupefying poisons, such as chloroform, tetrachloride of
carbon, &c.:--
“Whoever shall unlawfully apply, or administer to, or cause to be taken
by any person, any chloroform, laudanum, or other stupefying or
overpowering drug, matter, or thing, with intent, in any such case,
thereby to enable himself or any other person to commit, or with intent,
&c., to assist any other person in committing, any indictable offence,
shall be guilty of felony.”
§ 15. The German statute, as with successive amendments it now stands,
enacts as follows:[27]--
[27] “Wer vorsätzlich einem Andern, um dessen Gesundheit zu beschädigen,
Gift oder andere Stoffe beibringt, welche die Gesundheit zu zerstören
geeignet sind, wird mit Zuchthaus von zwei bis zu zehn Jahren bestraft.
“Ist durch die Handlung eine schwere Körperverletzung verursacht worden,
so ist auf Zuchthaus nicht unter fünf Jahren, und wenn durch die
Handlung der Tod verursacht worden, auf Zuchthaus nicht unter zehn
Jahren oder auf lebenslängliches Zuchthaus zu erkennen.
“Ist die vorsätzliche rechtswidrige Handlung des Gift--&c.,--Beibringens
auf das ‘Tödten’ gerichtet, soll also durch dieselbe gewollter Weise der
Tod eines Anderen herbeigeführt werden, so kommt in betracht: Wer
vorsätzlich einen Menschen tödtet, wird, wenn er die Tödtung mit
Ueberlegung ausgeführt hat, wegen Mordes mit dem Tode bestraft.”
“Whoever wilfully administers (_beibringt_) to a person, for the purpose
of injuring health, poison, or any other substance having the property
of injuring health, will be punished by from two to ten years’
imprisonment.
“If by such act a serious bodily injury is caused, the imprisonment is
not to be less than five years; if death is the result, the imprisonment
is to be not under ten years or for life.
“If the death is wilfully caused by poison, it comes under the general
law: ‘Whoever wilfully kills a man, and if the killing is premeditated,
is on account of murder punishable with death.’”
The French law runs thus (Art. 301, _Penal Code_):--“Every attempt on
the life of a person, by the effect of substances which may cause death,
more or less suddenly, in whatever manner these substances may have been
employed or administered, and whatever may have been the results, is
called poisoning.”[28]
[28] “Est qualifié _empoisonnement_--tout attentat à la vie d’une
personne par l’effet de substances qui peuvent donner la mort plus ou
moins promptement, de quelque manière que ces substances aient été
employées ou administrées, et quelles qu’en aient été les suites.”--Art.
301, _Penal Code_.
There is also a penalty provided against any one who “shall have
occasioned the illness or incapacity for personal work of another, by
the voluntary administration, in any manner whatever, of substances
which, without being of a nature to cause death, are injurious to
health.”[29]
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