 ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of committing the act, the 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4931850Full view - About this book
 | Albany Institute - Albany (N.Y.) - 1883 - 402 pages
...substance the following answer : " The jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of...proved to their satisfaction ; and that to establish a defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act,... | |
 | Law - 1844 - 500 pages
...submit our opinion to be, that the jury ought to be told in all cases, that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree 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... | |
 | 1845 - 986 pages
...England, upon the matter. — " Tlie Jury ought to be told in all cases, that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of...it must be clearly proved that at the time of the commission of the act, the party accused was labouring under guch n dekt of reason, from disease of... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 970 pages
...until the contrary is satisfactorily proved; and to Irvin v. The State of Florida— Opinion of Court. establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of committing the act the ?ccused was laboring under such defect of reason as not to know the nature and... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 784 pages
...to lubmit our opinion to be, that the jury ought to be told in all cases, that every man if presumed NoXv : = # z Ë \ ] S M 4^ !O h oe I 8 @ . fur his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction; and that to establish a defence... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...to submit our opinion to be, that the jury ought to be told in all cases, that every man it gfeaumed to be sane and to possess a sufficient degree of reason, to be responsible fur his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction; aud that to establish a defence... | |
 | Sir Alexander Morison - Mental illness - 1848 - 600 pages
...questions propounded by the House of Peers, shortly after the trial of M'Naughten, it is declared, that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that the accused party, at the time of committing the act, was labouring under such a defect of reason from... | |
 | Law - 1855 - 736 pages
...interrogatories it was answered that the jury ought to be told in all cases ' that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of...satisfaction ; and that, to establish a defence on the e round of insanity it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of the committing of the act, the... | |
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