1 Tyl. 180 | Vt. | 1801
The 21st section of the act enacts., ^ that if any person shall in any manner disturb or
Indictment quashed.
During their October session, immediately subsequent to this decision, the Legislature passed an act to prevent duel-ling, in which they sentenced the survivor, where death ensues in a duel, to death as in cases of murder; and where death is not the consequence, the act subjects the principals, seconds, or bearer of any challenge, to a fine of one thousand and not less than five hundred dollars, and incapacitates them for ever from holding any office of honour or profit, or of enjoying the privileges of freemen within the State. Verment Stat. vol. 1. p. 367.