Chapter 26 — Part III — The Ten Commandments
Section 577. Q. What cases must be reckoned as murder, and as breaches of this commandment? A. Besides direct murder, by whatever means, the same sin may be committed in the following, and in similar cases: 1. When a judge condemns a prisoner whom he knows to be innocent. 2. When any one conceals or sets free a murderer, and so gives him opportunity for fresh crime. 3. When any one can save his neighbor from death, but does not save him; as, when a rich man suffers a poor man to die of hunger. 4. When any one by excessive burdens and cruel punishments wears out those under him, and so hastens their death. 5. When any one, through intemperance or other vices, shortens his own life.