 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1865 - 806 pages
...principle laid down in the last two sections ; partly of the doctrine, that, as a question of proof, a man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own voluntary act.11 If, therefore, one kindles a fire in a stack, situated so that it is likely to communicate,... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1868 - 532 pages
...circumstances surrounding the commission of the act. I believe it is a rule, both in law and morale, that every man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own act. A good motivo never accompanies a bad act. nor a bad one a good act. Mr. Buchanan, in the trial of... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - 1869 - 622 pages
...instructions given to the- jury in this case, at the request of the prosecution, we find the following : " A man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own acts ; so the intent to murder is conclusively inferred from the use of a deadly weapon." Murder is... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1870 - 674 pages
...full knowledge of consequences, and with a determination or willingness to produce such consequences. Every man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own voluntary acts. 1 Greenl. End. § 18. Lord Ellenborough, 3 M. & S. 11, 15. Burr. Circ. Evid. 38, 47.... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1871 - 636 pages
...Act. This must be so ; otherwise, no laws, civil or criminal, could ever be administered. Every person is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own acts, and, if it be shown that the consequences naturally follow the acts, it is competent to infer... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1874 - 746 pages
...Event-ив varios res nova semper habet. A now matter always produces various events. Coke, Litt. 379. Every man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his oirn voluntary acts. 1 Orcen. Evid. ? 18; 9 East, 277; 9 Barnew. A C. 643; 3 Maule À S. 11, 17. Eje... | |
 | Nicholas St. John Green - 1879 - 838 pages
...of the court were applied. The court gave the following, amongst other charges : " 10. A sane person is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own acts; and the use of a deadly weapon by a sane person, from which the death of a human being ensues,... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1874 - 678 pages
...of the court were applied. The court gave the following, amongst other charges: "lO. A sane person is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own acts, and the use of a deadly weapon by a sane person, from which the death of a human being ensues,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1876 - 772 pages
...plaintiffs in error. vs. SIMEON E. CRITTENDEN, defendant in error. I. While it is true, in general, that a man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own acts, it is not true that he is presumed to intend all their necessary consequences. Consequences may... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - 1877 - 1090 pages
...instructions given to the jury in this case, ,it the request of the prosecution, we find the following: "A man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own acts; so the intent to murder is conclusively inferred from the use of a deadly weapon." Mailer is... | |
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A man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his acts. 
