My regret is that it is not punishable by law.
The defence was that the murder was a political offence, and therefore not punishable as an ordinary case of assassination for personal motives.
In either case it was an offence punishable by fines at discretion.
Clerks were punishable only in the court Christian, except in cases of grave crimes such as murder, mutilation (Fournier, p. 72), and cases called " royal cases " (vide infra).
Hungary and Sweden accepted it, and so finally did Denmark, where at first it was rejected, and its publication made a crime punishable by death.
