...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...that he did not know he was doing what was wrong." 1 In this country, whatever may have been the hesitancy as to the enunciation of other propositions...

...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...that he did not know he was doing what was wrong." 1 In this country, whatever may have been the hesitancy as to the enunciation of other propositions...

...from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. Q. 4. If a person under an insane delusion as to existing facts commits an offence in consequence thereof,...

...insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease...that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. 3. If a person labors under a partial delusion, and is, in other respects, sane, he is to bo considered...

...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...that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. The mode of putting the latter part of the question to the jury on these occasions has generally been,...

...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...that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. The mode of putting the latter part of the question to the jury on these occasions has generally been,...

...it is said " it must be clearly proved that at the time of committing the offence, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease...that he did not know he was doing what was wrong." And in a very late case in our Court of Appeals a charge in that language was held to present the law...

...from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or if he did know it that he did not know he was doing what was wrong." Here we come at once on the difference between the lawyers and doctors, and the error of requiring...

...a disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or if he did know it, that 'he did not know he was doing what was wrong." This, said the Lord Chief Justice, is a more accurate way of putting the question to the jury, than...

...mental disease that the party is not capable of knowing the nature or quality of the act, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. But drunkenness is never an excuse for crime, except where it has continued so long and been earned...