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· 6/22/2015

Dowling v. Pennsylvania

Citations

  • 135 S. Ct. 2868
  • 192 L. Ed. 2d 904

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  • adhering to the common law, stating in dicta that “[i]f there was a fixed purpose to do bodily harm, without killing, and death resulted, it was murder of the second degree.”

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