TITLE IX.
OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON.
Chapter I. Suicide.
II. Homicide.
III. Maiming
IV. Kidnapping
V. Attempts to kill.
VI. Robbery.
II. Assaults with intent to commit felony other than assaults with intent to kill.
VIII. Duels and challenges.
IX. Assault and battery.
X. Libel.
CHAPTER I.
SUICIDE.
Section 227. Suicide defined.
228. No forfeiture imposed for suicide.
229. Attempting suicide.
230. Aiding suicide.
231. Furnishing weapon or drug to commit suicide.
232. Aiding attempt at suicide.
233. Mental incapacity of person aided, no defense.
234. Punishment of aiding suicide.
235. Punishment of attempting suicide or aiding an attempt.
Sec. 227. Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life.
Sec. 228. Although suicide is deemed a grave public wrong, yet from the impossibility of reaching the successful perpetrator, no forfeiture is imposed.
Sec. 229. But every person who with intent to take his own life, commits upon himself any act dangerous to human life, or which if committed upon or towards another person and fol-
