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it is to be considered whether the act were intentional, and if so whether it were legal.
A case put which is said to have happened yesterday.

Case of a master moderately correcting his apprentice or Servant. If immoderate but with an instrument not likely to kill, it will be Manslaughter; but if the instrument be such as might probably kill when so used it will be murder.
The instance mentioned of a man who is said to have been tied up aboard a ship, & to have died while so told up though he was not beaten.