 | Edward Livingston - Criminal law - 1822 - 164 pages
...imprisonment for life ; then one month of such imprisonment, in every year, shall be in solitude. ART. 30. No act done by a person in a state of INSANITY can be punished as an offence. No person becoming INSANE after he has committed an offence, can be tried for the same. No person becoming... | |
 | Edward Livingston - Criminal law - 1824 - 170 pages
...imprisonment for life; then one month of such imprisonment, in every year, shall be in solitude. ART. 30. No act done by a person in a state of INSANITY can be punished as an offence. No person becoming INSANE after he has committed an offence, can be tried for the same. No person becoming... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 516 pages
...responsibility. In Livingston's code (New Orleans, 1824, chap. I11, p. 15,) we have the following words : — " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." The revised statutes of the state of New York, (Albany, 1836, vol. ii, p. 582,) contain the same words.... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1829 - 878 pages
...the courts deriving their jurisdiction under the laws and constitution of the United States.60 S 2. No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punish- in«!mopw-., i . i • ii aoiw. ed as an offence ; and no insane person can be tried, sentenced... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1829 - 882 pages
...the courts deriving their jurisdiction under the laws and constitution of the United States.59 § 2. No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punish- insane p«r ed as an offence ; and no insane person can be tried, sentenced to any (89) i*wi... | |
 | Edward Livingston - Crime - 1833 - 766 pages
...imprisonment for life, then one month of such imprisonment, in every year, shall be in solitude. Art. 35. No act done by a person in a state of INSANITY, can be punished as an offence. No person becoming INSANE after he has committed an offence, can be tried for the same. No person becoming... | |
 | Edward Livingston - Crime - 1833 - 768 pages
...imprisonment for life, then one month of such imprisonment, in every year, shall be in solitude. Art. 35. No act done by a person in a state of INSANITY, can be punished as an offence. No person becoming INSANE after he has committed an offence, can be tried for the same. No person becoming... | |
 | I. RAY, M.D. - 1838
...opin1 The state of New York has adopted the principle of the French law, in reference to this point. " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can...punishment, or punished, for any crime or offence which he commits in that state." 2 Revised Statutes, 697. ions and facts in evidence prove derangement... | |
 | Isaac Ray - 1839 - 474 pages
...* The state of New York has adopted the principle of the French law, in reference to this point. " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence, and no insane person ean be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished, for any crime or offence which he commits in... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - Criminal law - 1841 - 834 pages
...it.(rf) This is the doctrine of the common law. Besides, it is now expressly provided by statute, that " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence."(e) One great difficulty which a magistrate has to encounter is, to distinguish between such... | |
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Our statutes may declare, as they do, that " no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense, and no insane person can be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for any crime or offense while he continues in that... 
