 | 1898 - 926 pages
...disease of the mind as not to know the nature i 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. Russell. Crimes, p. 19; M'Naughten't Cote, 10 Clark & F. 200; Penal Code, art. 52. to such facts, and... | |
 | Harry Clay Underhill - 1898 - 1122 pages
...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." Again, in Moett v. People, 85 NY 373, 380, the court, by Earl, J., said: "The laws of God and the land... | |
 | 1899 - 604 pages
...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. " If the accused was conscious that the act was one which he ought not to do, and if the act was at... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1900 - 888 pages
...from disease of 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" (p). Infancy. The question whether a criminal intention may be ascribed to an infant depends upon the... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1901 - 1052 pages
...other things, said that there is no criminal responsibility where, "at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such...he did not know he was doing what was wrong." The rule thus announced has been, since 1843, the unquestioned law in England, and it is now the generally... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1902 - 630 pages
...arraignment for it he becomes mad, he ought not to be arraigned that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such...that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. The foregoing is substantially the language employed by Lord Chief Justice Tindal in the celebrated case... | |
 | Melvin Bolli Ogden - 1902 - 854 pages
...defect of reason, from disease of mind, as not to know the nature or quality of the act, or if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. This is the definition given by Chief Justice Tindall, in the House of Lords, on the trial of McNaughton,... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1903 - 802 pages
...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 " (a). The Criminal Lunatics Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Viet. c. 64), which repeals and consolidates (with... | |
 | 1904 - 1166 pages
...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." To the fourth question they answered: "On the assumption that he labors under a partial delusion only,... | |
 | 1905 - 1048 pages
...the defense of insanity it must be clearly proved that at the time of committing the act the pnrty accused was laboring under such a defect of reason,...was wrong. The mode of putting the latter part of tbe question to the jury on tbese occasions has generally been whether the accused, at the time of... | |
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... to establish a defence 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... 
