The Homicide Law
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Against Aristocrates (Greek)
In the statute it is provided that the Council shall take cognizance of homicide, intentional wounding, arson, and poisoning, if a man kills another by giving him poison.
in the texts
The Third Tetralogy
The legal rule(s) governing homicide repeatedly invoked by every speaker, including the prohibition on taking life, the principle that guilt rests on the party who acted from design (the aggressor), and the physician's legal immunity for a patient's death.
and we have proved that the law fixes the guilt of the murder upon him who gave that blow.
it lays down that the guilt of a murder shall rest upon that party which acted from design.
But, he will object, the law which forbids the taking of life whether justifiably or not shows you to be liable to the penalty prescribed for murder;
Against Aristocrates
Athenian rules governing homicide, trial, punishment, exile, pursuit, and lawful killing.
In the statute it is provided that the Council shall take cognizance of homicide, intentional wounding, arson, and poisoning, if a man kills another by giving him poison.
Many statutes have been violated, men of Athens, in the drafting of this decree, but none more gravely than that which has just been read.
This statute, men of Athens, like all the other excerpts from the law of homicide which I have cited for comparison, is a statute of Draco;