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 | 1915 - 1352 pages
...act done by a person who is an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane is not a crime. A person can not be tried, sentenced to any punishment or punished...crime while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person... | |
 | New York (State). Board of Charities - 1910 - 1028 pages
...act done by a person who is an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane is not a crime. A person can not be tried, sentenced to any punishment or punished...crime while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1884 - 788 pages
...code. $ 20. An act done by a person who is an Idiot, imbecile, lunatic, insane or of unsound mind, is not a crime. A person cannot be tried, sentenced to any punishment or punished for any crime while he is In a state of idiocy, imbecility, insanity or lumicy, so as to be Incapable of... | |
 | New York (State) - 1881 - 242 pages
...person who is an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, insane, or of unsound mind, is not a crime. A per- f son cannot be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished...crime, while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility, insanity, or lunacy, so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. §... | |
 | New York (State) - 1882 - 806 pages
...is'an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane is not a crime. A person cannot be tried, sentenced to anv punishment or punished for a crime while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. Section... | |
 | New York (State) - 1884 - 1000 pages
...Irresponsibility, etc., of idiots, lunatics, etc.— An act done by a person who is an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane, is not a crime. A person cannot be tried,...crime while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. (Amended... | |
 | 1885 - 704 pages
...done by a person who is an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or of unsound mind, is not a crime, and that such a person cannot be tried, sentenced to any punishment,...crime, while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility, insanity or lunacy, so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding, or undertaking his defense... | |
 | 1920 - 672 pages
...NE 47.) This humane principle has been carried into the statutes of this State, which provide that a person cannot be tried, sentenced to any punishment,...or punished for a crime while he is in a state of insanity, so as to be incapable of understanding the proceedings or making his defense. (Penal Law... | |
 | George Leib Harrison - 1884 - 1134 pages
...idiot, imbecile, luiwd 5 20. natic, or insane, is not a crime. A person cannot be Irresponnitill- ' ' tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for...crime, while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility, lunacy, or insanity, so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. 194.... | |
 | 1922 - 624 pages
...jurisdiction to try Cassidy. The particular clause of that section relied upon reads : " A person can not be tried, sentenced to any punishment or punished for a crime while he is in a state of * * * imbecility." The demurrer interposed by the attorney general practically admits that Cassidy... | |
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