 | Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...him to distinguish between right and wrong, as to the particular act he is then doing; a know, ledge and consciousness that the act he is doing is wrong...him to punishment In order to be responsible he must Imvu sufficient power of memory to recollect the relation in which he stands to others, and in which... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1878 - 708 pages
...particular act in question • H 58 300 88 379 58 300 88 228 Thweatt tt al. v*. Kiddoo, judge. if lie has knowledge and consciousness that the act he is doing is wrong and would deserve punishment, he is, in the eye of the law, of sound mind and memory, and the subject of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 566 pages
...responsibility, if he has capacity and reason sufficient to enable him to distinguish between right and wrong, as to the particular act he is then doing ; a knowledge and consciousness that the act he is doing is wrung and criminal, and will subject him to punishment. In order to lie n /.-ponsible, he must have... | |
 | Daniel Edgar Sickles, Felix Gregory De Fontaine - Trials (Murder) - 1859 - 140 pages
...enahle him to distinguish hetween right and wrong as to the particular act he is doing, a knowledge ami consciousness that the act he is doing is wrong and criminal and will suhject him lo punishment. In order to he responsihle, he must have sufficient power of memory to recollect... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1860 - 1072 pages
...reason sufficient to enable him to distinguish between right and wrong as to the particular act he is doing ; a knowledge and consciousness that the act he is doing is wrong and criminal, aud will subject him to punishment. In order to be responsible, he must have sufficient power of memory... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1861 - 822 pages
...sufficient to enable him to distinguish right and wrong, as to the particular act in question: if he has knowledge and consciousness, that the act he is doing is wrong, and will deserve punishment, he is, in the eye of the Law, of sound mind and memory," and therefore criminally... | |
 | Medicine - 1868 - 596 pages
...from responsibility if he has capacity and reason sufficient to distingnish betweea right and wrong as to the particular act he is then doing, a knowledge and consciousness that the act is wrong and criminal. But in these cases it is not deemed sufficient that the individual has a general... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 616 pages
...responsibility, if he has capacity and reason sufficient to enable him to distinguish between right and wrong, as to the particular act he is then doing; a knowledge...power of memory to recollect the relation in which he standa to others, and in which others stand to him; that the act he is doing is contrary to the plain... | |
 | Law - 1888 - 564 pages
...doing, (to have) a knowledge and consciousness that the act he is then doing is criminal and wrong, and will subject him to punishment. In order to be...must have sufficient power of memory to recollect the relations in which he stands to others, and in which others stand to him; that the act he is doing... | |
| |
A man is not to be excused from responsibility, if he has capacity and reason sufficient to enable him to distinguish between right and wrong as to the particular act he is then doing; a knowledge and consciousness that the act he is doing is wrong and... 
