 ... at the time of the committing of 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 the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing...  Publications - Nebraska State Historical Society - Page 509by Nebraska State Historical Society - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Seymour Frederick Harris, Frederic Philip Tomlinson - Criminal law - 1881 - 678 pages
...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 " (k). Thus the question of knowledge of right or wrong, instead of being put generally and indefinitely,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1881 - 892 pages
...from disease of 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. Where the party is laboring under an insane delusion as to existing facts, and commits a crime in consequence... | |
 | Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé - Insanity - 1882 - 832 pages
...instructed, that ' it must be clearly shown 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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 954 pages
...exemption from responsibility unless, "at the time of the coroiuittii _• of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease...or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what waswrong"; if the accused was under an ingunr delusion as to existing facts and committed... | |
 | Samuel Prentice - Criminal law - 1882 - 402 pages
...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. (R. v. M'Naughten, 10 Cl. & Fin. 200.) The following question was put to the judges in the above case... | |
 | History, Modern - 1882 - 208 pages
...disease of the mind, a« not to luiow the nature and quality of the act he wa« doing; or, If he did not know it, 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 general!)... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 912 pages
...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, relieves him from all criminal responsibility. "TiNDAL, CJf in answers to questions propounded by the... | |
 | Medico-Legal Society, Medico-Legal Society of New York - Insanity (Law) - 1882 - 566 pages
...disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did not know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong." The test thus given is rejected by Bucknill, who, in his essay on " Unsoundness of Mind in Relation... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 954 pages
...disease of t lie mind, os not to know the natnre 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 " ; if the accused was under an insane delusion as to existing facts and committed an offense in consequence... | |
 | Albany Institute - Albany (N.Y.) - 1883 - 400 pages
...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." This rule, as an abstract proposition, is adopted by the English courts; but, like most common-law... | |
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