 A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as: 1. Not to know the nature and...  Harvard Law Review - Page 7301917Full view - About this book
 | New York (State). Department of Social Welfare - Public welfare - 1906 - 1566 pages
...1884, Prople v. Rhinelander, 2 id. 340. § 21. Irresponsibility, etc., of idiots, lunatics, etc. — A person is not excused from criminal liability as...he was laboring under such a defect of reason, as either. 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or 2. Not to know that the act... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1906 - 1370 pages
...Irresponsibility, etc., of idiots, lunatics, etc. — A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiet, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof...he was laboring under such a defect of reason, as either, 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or 2. Not to know that the act... | |
 | New York (State). Board of Statutory Consolidation - Law - 1907 - 498 pages
...imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as £either] : . 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, 2. Not to know that... | |
 | New York (State). Department of Social Welfare - Public welfare - 1907 - 918 pages
...1884, People v. Rhinelander, Z id. 340. § 21. Irresponsibility, etc., of idiots, lunatics, etc. — A person is not excused from criminal liability as...insane person, except upon proof that, at the time of comnritting the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason, as either, or... | |
 | Charles Greene Cumston - 1908 - 28 pages
...definition of insanity. By the law of New York state, a person is not excused from criminal liability as an insane person except upon proof that, at the time...act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as either not to know the nature and quality of the act he was perpetrating, or not to know that this... | |
 | New York (State) - Criminal law - 1908 - 886 pages
...Iowa, 88; Cunningham т. State, 56 Miss. 269. { 21. Irresponsibility, etc., of Idiot, lunatic, etc. A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, or of unsound mind, except upon proof that, at the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he... | |
 | Rudolph August Witthaus - 1909 - 1074 pages
...that: "An act done by & person who is an idiot, lunatic, or insane, is not a crime." And in section 21: "A person is not excused from criminal liability as...act he was laboring under such a defect of reason as either (1) not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or (2) not to know that the... | |
 | Heinrich Oppenheimer - Criminal liability - 1909 - 292 pages
...1882). An act done by a person who is an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane is not a crime. Art. 21. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was labouring under such a defect of reason as either (a) Not to know the nature and quality of the act... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1910 - 1032 pages
...imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at the Vol. Ill — 11 time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of... | |
 | American Psychiatric Association - Psychiatry - 1910 - 550 pages
...insanity in substantially the same language as that used by the judges in the McNaughten case, namely : A person is not excused from criminal liability as...idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane person, except upon the proof that, as the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect... | |
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