Crimes and Punishments, in Compiled and Revised Laws of the Territory of Idaho 326 (1875)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Idaho [Territory] | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T00:00:35Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T01:32:22Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T01:05:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1875 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prohibited dueling with a rifle, shot-gun, pistol, bowie knife, dirk, small sword, back sword, or any other dangerous weapon. If any person shall kill or inflict a wound that the other party shall die of within one year, every offender shall be deemed guilty of first degree murder. | |
| dc.description.exceptions | US, Idaho, County officials exempted. Peace Officers, Guards of any jail, and officers of any "Express" company on duty exempted. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Sec. 35. If any person shall, by previous appointment or agreement, fight a duel with a rifle, shot-gun, pistol, bowie knife, dirk, small sword, back sword, or any other dangerous weapon, and in so doing shall kill his antagonist or any other person or persons, or shall inflict such wound as that the party or parties injured shall die thereof within one year thereafter, every such offender shall be deemed guilty of murder in the first degree, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished accordingly. Sec. 36. Any person who shall engage in a duel with any deadly weapon, although no homicide ensue, or shall challenge another to fight such duel, or shall send or deliver any verbal or written message, purporting or intending to be such challenge, although no duel ensue, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison not less than two nor more than ten years, and shall be incapable of voting or holding any office of trust or profit under the laws of this Territory. Sec. 37. Any and every person who shall be present at the time of fighting any duel with deadly weapons, either as second, aid, surgeon or spectator, or who shall advise or give assistance to such duel, shall be a competent witness against any person offending against any of the provisions of this act, and may be compelled to appear and give evidence before any justice of the peace, grand jury or court, in the same manner as other witnesses; but the testimony so given shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or criminal, against the person so testifying. | |
| dc.description.summary | Prohibited dueling with a rifle, shot-gun, pistol, bowie knife, dirk, small sword, back sword, or any other dangerous weapon. If any person shall kill or inflict a wound that the other party shall die of within one year, every offender shall be deemed guilty of first degree murder. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3702 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Compiled_and_Revised_Laws_of_the_Ter/kBVEAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA326&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | DUELING | |
| dc.title | Crimes and Punishments, in Compiled and Revised Laws of the Territory of Idaho 326 (1875) |