 The question is, whether the prisoner was laboring under that species of insanity which satisfies you that he was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing, or in other words, whether he was under the influence...  Wharton and Stillé's Medical Jurisprudence - Page 135by Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1864 - 776 pages
...satisfies you that he was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act which he was committing ; or, in other words, whether he...time he was committing the act that it was a crime." His lordship further said, that the jury must judge of the act by the prisoner's statements, and by... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Evidence (Law) - 1842 - 1186 pages
...labouring under Hint species of insanity which satisfies yon that he was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing...other words, whether he was under the influence of a deceased mind, and was really unconscious at tbe time he was committing tbe act that it was a crime.... | |
 | Richard Clarke Sewell - Coroners - 1843 - 406 pages
...was labouring under that species of insanity which satisfied them he was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing;...time he was committing the act, that it was a crime, (jp) Strictly speaking, in order to relieve a party from insanity the responsibility of his action,... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1843 - 1068 pages
...labouring under that species of insanity which satisfies you that he " was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of " the act he was committing,...time he was committing the act, that it was a crime ?" (¿) Hadfield'scase. James Hadßeld was tried in the Court of King's Bench, in the —Shooting at... | |
 | Abner Rogers (Jr.), George Tyler Bigelow, George Bemis - Criminal liability - 1844 - 312 pages
...laboring under that species of insanity, which satisfies you that he was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing...mind, and was really unconscious at the time he was commiting the act, that it was a crime." This declaration of the law quite accords with the opinion... | |
 | Law - 1844 - 510 pages
...character, and consequences of the act he was committing, he would be excusable ; or in other words, if he was under the influence of a diseased mind, and...time he was committing the act, that it was a crime. Lord Lyndhurst, moreover, thought that it would be futile to attempt to define or describe the particular... | |
 | Samuel Owen - Law - 1845 - 434 pages
...prisoner was laboring under that species of insanity which rendered him quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing...time he was committing the act, that it was a crime .'"* So also in the late trial of Daniel Me. Naughten, Chief Jusnce Tindal, in stopping the case, observed... | |
 | 1845 - 408 pages
...that he was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing ; in other words, whether he was under the influence...time he was committing the act, that it was a crime. On the trial of M'Naughten for killing Mr Drummond, in 1843, Lord Chief Justice Tindal instructed the... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 784 pages
...labouring under that species of insanity, which satisfies them that he was quite unaware of the nature, If the jury in such a case are of opinion that the prisoner did not in fact do all that the law deems... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...labouring under that species of insanity, which satisfies them that lie was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing;...words, whether he was under the influence of a diseased niind, and was really unconscious at the time he was committing the acl, that it was a crime. If the... | |
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