One has no right to kill an innocent person to save himself, whatever may be his danger. Though a man be violently assaulted and has no other means of escaping death but by killing an innocent person, this fear and force shall not acquit him of murder, for he ought rather to die himself than to escape by the murder of an innocent person.44

So if two or more persons unfortunately are so situated that they cannot procure food and are starving, and one of their number be killed by the others for food, such killing is murder.45

So, too, if one forces another to do some act causing the death of the latter he will be guilty of murder.46