Section 750.319 - Death as result of fighting duel.
THE MICHIGAN PENAL CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 328 of 1931
750.319 Death as result of fighting duel.
Sec. 319.
Death as result of fighting a duel—Any person, being an inhabitant or resident of this state, who shall, by previous appointment or engagement made within the same, fight a duel without the jurisdiction of this state, or who shall fight a duel within this state, and in so doing shall inflict a mortal wound upon any person, whereof the person so injured shall afterwards die within this state, shall be guilty of murder of the first degree within this state, and may be indicted, tried and convicted in the county where such death shall happen.
History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 750.319
Former Law: See section 4 of Ch. 153 of R.S. 1846, being CL 1857, § 5714; CL 1871, § 7513; How., § 9078; CL 1897, § 11473; CL 1915, § 15195; and CL 1929, § 16711.