 To establish a defence on the ground of insanity it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act...  A History of the Criminal Law of England - Страница 163написао/ла James Fitzjames Stephen - 1883Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Caleb Williams - 1856 - 152 страница
...reason, and such a disease of the mind as not to know the nature of the act ; or if he knew it, then that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong. If he did an act knowing it to be wrong, or contrary to the law of the land, he would be punishable.... | |
 | Charles Richards Brown - 1870 - 482 страница
...conscious of all these, yet il this diseased action of his mind had so far overcome or perverted his reason that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong." It is not every partial derangement of the mental faculties that will exempt from legal responsibility... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1875 - 848 страница
...in order that a man may be excused by insanity from the consequences of his crime, it must be shown that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong. When the answer* were returned to the house of lords, there, was a debate upon that, and in the debate... | |
 | 1884 - 676 страница
...second point — that a delusion may afford evidence that a person, in the language of the judges, was " labouring under such a defect of reason from...he did not know that what he was doing was wrong," Sir James Stephen observes that the word " wrong " is ambiguous, as well as the word "know," for it... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1884 - 1012 страница
...conscious of all these, yet if the diseased action of his mind had so far overcome or perverted his reason that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong ; then he was not responsible either for the intoxication or its consequences. And if he continued... | |
 | Medical Society of New Jersey - 1884 - 314 страница
...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 that what he was doing was wrong. The accused may have been laboring under an aberration of intellect, or he may not have realized the... | |
 | Canada. Department of the Secretary of State - 1886 - 420 страница
...took place, that is to say, in March, April and May last, that he was laboring under anoh a defect of reason from disease of the mind, that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong f A. I think he did know ; I think he v. as quite capable of distinguishing right from wrong. Q. Quete... | |
 | Louis Riel - 1886 - 228 страница
...took place, that is to say, in march, april and may last, that he was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind, that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong ? — A. I think he did know. I think he was quite capable of distinguishing right from wrong. Q. Quotethe... | |
 | Canada. Department of the Secretary of State - 1886 - 398 страница
...took place, that is to say, in March, April and May last, that ho was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind, that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong ? A. I think he did know ; I think he \\ as quite capable of distinguishing right from wrong. Q. Quote... | |
 | 1888 - 892 страница
...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 that what he was doing was wrong, then the law does not hold him responsible for his act. Ou the other hand, if he was capable of understanding... | |
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