 | Albany Institute - Albany (N.Y.) - 1883 - 402 pages
...for his crimes until the contrary be 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, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the... | |
 | Law - 1844 - 500 pages
...appear to us to be more conveniently answered together, we have to submit our opinion to be, that the jury ought to be told in all cases, that every man...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... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Courts, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 824 pages
...suffi- 1843. cient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary ,-~-v— —' be proved to their satisfaction ; and that, to establish a defence on the RF.GINA. ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of the coin- HIGCINSON. mitting... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 784 pages
...every man if presumed to be sane and to possess a sufficient degree of reason, to be responsible fur thereof, thai suffer death. If any person shall purposely...kill another, every such person shall be deemed gu committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason from disease ot the... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...of reason, to be responsible fur his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction; aud that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved, that at the time of commuting the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason from disease or the... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1851 - 552 pages
...onght ti be told in all cases, that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient deprw of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until...the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved thai, at UM time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 392 pages
...to law, he is punishable. In all cases of this kind, the jurors ought to be told that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree...insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the... | |
 | Isaac Ray - 1853 - 550 pages
...judges state that these two questions can be more conveniently answered together, and their reply is, that, " to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved, that at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the... | |
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... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of... 
