Note 359 — Chapter VIII · AFTER SPEENHAMLAND
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Scotland was exempted from the operation of this statute, for whilst the Bill was going through Parliament, a case raised in a Scottish Court ended in a unanimous decision by the six Judges of the High Court of Justiciary that killing by a spring gun was murder. Hence the milder provisions of this Act were not required. See Annual Register, 1827, p. 185, and Chron., p. 116.