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| | Legal Definition of Murder |
 | | In an indictment for murder, it must be charged that the prisoner "did kill and murder" the deceased, and unless the word murder be introduced into the charge, the indictment will be taken to charge manslaughter only. |
 | | Russell says, murder is the killing of any person under the king's peace, with malice prepense or aforethought, either express or implied by law. |
 | | To constitute a birth, so as to make the killing of a child murder, the whole body must be detached from that of the mother; but if it has come wholly forth, but is still connected by the umbilical chord, such killing will be murder. |
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