Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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... "
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York - Page 322
by New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1910
Full view - About this book

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Commission of ..., Volume 194

New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 764 pages
...of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as either, " 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he...doing; or " 2. Not to know that the act was wrong." The question whether the defendant at the time of the homicide was laboring under such a defect of reason...
Full view - About this book

Annual report of the State Board of Charities of the state of New ..., Volume 48

1915 - 1352 pages
...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...act was wrong. The law presumes sanity in all cases. Tiew York County Court, Oyer and Terminer, December, 1881, People v. Coleman, 1 NY Cr. 5. The burden...
Full view - About this book

Annual Report, Volume 3

New York (State). Board of Charities - 1910 - 1028 pages
...insane asylums. § 1120. Irresponsibility of idiot or lunatic. — An act done by a person who is an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane is not a crime....Terminer, December, 1881, People v. Coleman, 1 NY Or. 5. The burden of overthrowing the presumption of sanity is upon the person who alleges the insanity,...
Full view - About this book

Annual Report, Volume 2; Volume 38

New York (State). Board of Charities - 1906 - 1550 pages
...time of committing tie alleged criminal 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 act was wrong. (As amended by chapter 384 of the Laws of 1882.) The rule now established excludes consideration of...
Full view - About this book

Annual Report, Volume 2; Volume 37

New York (State). Board of Charities - 1904 - 1488 pages
...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 either 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or 2. Not to know that the act...
Full view - About this book

Laws of the State of New York, Volume 1

New York (State) - Law - 1882 - 806 pages
...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 either, 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or 2. Not to know that the act...
Full view - About this book

The American Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry, Volume 2

Nervous system - 1883 - 790 pages
...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 either 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or 2. Not to know that the act...
Full view - About this book

The Medical World, Volume 14

Medicine - 1896 - 546 pages
...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 either not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or that the act was wrong. Our courts...
Full view - About this book

Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases

Thomas Smith Clouston - Insanity (Law) - 1884 - 606 pages
...is not excused from criminal liability, as a 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 either not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or not to know that the act was...
Full view - About this book

Clinical lectures on mental diseases

Thomas Smith Clouston - Insanity (Law) - 1884 - 608 pages
...is not excused from criminal liability, as a 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 either not to know the nature and quality of the act he wsis doing, or not to knoģ that the act was...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF