 ... to establish a defense on the ground of insanity it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality...  A Treatise on the medical jurisprudence of insanity - Pagina 59door Isaac Ray - 1871 - 658 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1876 - 1164 pagina’s
...defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proven that at the time of committing the act the accused was laboring under such a defect of reason,...that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. At the time this rule was announced, Lord Brougham objected to it because it was left doubtful whether... | |
 | William Campbell Sleigh - 1858 - 184 pagina’s
...from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong." It only remains for me to remark, that intoxication is no excuse for the commission of crime. If, therefore,... | |
 | 1858 - 754 pagina’s
...from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. 3rd. If a person under a partial delusion only, and not in other respects insane, commits an offence... | |
 | American Medical Association - 1858 - 1096 pagina’s
...defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1860 - 1072 pagina’s
...defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect...or if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wroug."(j) 3d. When the defendant is acting under an insane delusion as to circumstances,... | |
 | 1862 - 802 pagina’s
...Scott NR 595, they say, "it most be clearly proved that at the time of committing the act, the partj accused was laboring under such a defect of reason...doing, or if he did know it, that he did not know he *H doing what was wrong." The law as administered in England, to be consistent with itself, must refuse... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott - 1864 - 808 pagina’s
...under such inental disease as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. [2 Greenl. Ev., § 878; 10 Clark & Fin., 210; 9 C. & P., 525.] Ib. Gen. Sen., 1816, Clark's Case, 1... | |
 | William Henry Octavius Sankey - 1866 - 326 pagina’s
...disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or if lie did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong." Now, all these modes of determining the question of the existence of mental disease are, and have always... | |
 | Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of New York - 1868 - 818 pagina’s
...on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect...that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. The mode of putting the latter part of the question to the jury on these occasions has generally been,... | |
 | Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of New York - 1868 - 818 pagina’s
...on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect...that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. The mode of putting the latter part of the question to the jury on these occasions has generally been,... | |
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