 | Abner Rogers (Jr.), George Tyler Bigelow, George Bemis - Criminal liability - 1844 - 312 pages
...its influence has a real and firm belief of some fact, not true in itself, but which if it were true, would excuse his act; as where the belief is, that...upon his life, and under that belief the insane man killed him in supposed self-defence. A common instance is where he fully believes that the act he is... | |
 | Lundsford Pitts Yandell, Theodore S. Bell - Medicine - 1845 - 564 pages
...its influence has a real or firm belief of some fact, not true in itself, but which if it were true, would excuse his act; as where the belief is, that...upon his life, and under that belief the insane man killed him in supposed self defence. A common instance is when he fully believes that the act he is... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 784 pages
...influence has a real and firm belief of some fact, nut true in itself, but which it' it were true, would excuse his act; as where the belief is that...immediate design upon his life, and under that belief the : man killed him iu supposed self-defence. A common instance is where be fully believes that the act... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...fact, nut true in itself, but which if it were true, would excuse his act ; as where the belief ia that the party killed had an immediate design upon his life, and under that belief the insane man killed him in supposed self-defence. A common instance is where he fully believes that the act he is... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1854 - 784 pages
...its influence has a real and firm belief of some fact, not true in itself, but which if it were true, would excuse his act ; as where the belief is that...upon his life, and under that belief the insane man killed him in supposed self-defence. A common instance is where he fully believes that the act he is... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 554 pages
...under its influence has a real and firm belief of some fact not true in itself, but which, if true, would excuse his act; as where the belief is that...design upon his life, and under that belief the insane mini kills in supposed self-defense. A common instance is where he fully beliuvea that the act he is... | |
 | Medico-Legal Society of New York - Insanity (Law) - 1869 - 734 pages
...influence has a real and firm belief of some fact, not true in itself, but which, if it were true, would excuse his act ; as where the belief is, that...upon his life, and under that belief the insane man killed him in supposed selfdefense." And " secondly, where some violent outburst occurs, which, taken... | |
 | Ohio State Medical Society - Medicine - 1874 - 444 pages
...its influence has a real and firm belief of some fact, not true in itself, but which if it were true, would excuse his act; as where the belief is, that...upon his life, and under that belief, the insane man killed him in supposed self-defence. Or secondly, where some violent outburst occurs, which taken in... | |
 | Medicine - 1881 - 434 pages
...would have been justified if his belief had been true. "Another example is where the person killing fully believes that the act he is doing is done by the command of a superior power which supersedes all human laws and the laws of nature. " But where a man,... | |
 | Law - 1879 - 582 pages
...influence has a real and firm belief of some fact, not true in itself, but which, if it were true, would excuse his act ; as where the belief is that the party killed had an immediate design upon hia life, and under that belief the insane man kills in supposed self-defense. A common instance is... | |
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Either the delusion is such that the person under its influence has a real and firm belief of some fact, not true in itself, but which, if it were true, would excuse his act, — as where the belief is that the party killed had an immediate design upon... 
