(Shingō: Murder & Assault Prevention & Penalties Act)

# P.R. 0006

**Chapter 1:**

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> * **(a)** Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait, or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing; or committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, escape, murder, kidnapping, treason, espionage, sabotage, child abuse, burglary, or robbery; or perpetrated as part of a pattern or practice of assault or torture against a child or children; or perpetrated from a premeditated design unlawfully and maliciously to effect the death of any human being other than him who is killed, is murder in the first degree. Any other murder is murder in the second degree.
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> * **(b)** Within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the Imperial Republic of Shingō,
> 	+ **(1)** Whoever is guilty of murder in the first degree shall be punished by death, banishment, or by imprisonment for life;
> 	+ **(2)** Whoever is guilty of murder in the second degree, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life.
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**Chapter 2:**

> **§1)** Where any murder or manslaughter shall be committed on land outside of the Imperial Republic of Shingō, whether the person killed were a citizen of the Imperial Republic of Shingō or not, every offense committed by any citizen of the Imperial Republic of Shingō in respect of any such case, whether the same shall amount to the offense of murder or of manslaughter, may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in the Imperial Republic of Shingō. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent any person from being tried in any place outside of Imperial Republic of Shingō for any murder or manslaughter committed outside of the Imperial Republic of Shingō, in the same manner as such person might have been tried before the passing of this Act.
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> **§2)** A person who without lawful excuse makes to another a threat, intending that that other would fear it would be carried out, to kill that other or a third person shall be guilty of an offense and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.
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> **§3)** Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously prevent or impede any person, being on board of or having quitted any ship or vessel which shall be in distress, or wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, in his endeavor to save his life, or shall unlawfully and maliciously prevent or impede any person in his endeavor to save the life of any such person as in this section first aforesaid, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for any term of years or for life.
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> **§4)** Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously by any means whatsoever wound or cause any grievous bodily harm to any person, with intent to do grievous bodily harm to any person, or with intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer of any person, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for any term of years or for life.
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> **§5)** Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously wound or inflict any grievous bodily harm upon any other person, either with or without any weapon or instrument, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for any term of years.
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**Chapter 3:**

> **§1)** Whosoever shall unlawfully abandon or expose any child, being under the age of two years, whereby the life of such child shall be endangered, or the health of such child shall have been or shall be likely to be permanently injured, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for any term of years or life.
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> **§2)** Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously place or throw in, into, upon, against, or near any building, ship, or vessel any gunpowder or other explosive substance, with intent to do any bodily injury to any person, shall, whether or not any explosion take place, and whether or not any bodily injury be effected, be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding thirty years.
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**Chapter 4:**

> **§1)** Whosoever shall assault any person with intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer of himself or of any other person for any offence, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three years.
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**Chapter 5:**

> **§1)** Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously put or throw upon or across any railway any wood, stone, or other matter or thing, or shall unlawfully and maliciously take up, remove, or displace any rail, sleeper, or other matter or thing belonging to any railway, or shall unlawfully and maliciously turn, move, or divert any points or other machinery belonging to any railway, or shall unlawfully and maliciously make or show, hide or remove, any signal or light upon or near to any railway, or shall unlawfully and maliciously do or cause to be done any other matter or thing, with intent, in any of the cases aforesaid, to endanger the safety of any person traveling or being upon such railway, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term of years or life.
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