| Edmund Burke - History - 1844 - 978 pages
...contrary. That before a plea of insanity should be allowed, undoubted evidence ought to be adduced thut the accused was of diseased mind, and that at the...he committed the act he was not conscious of right or wrong. This opinion related to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and... | |
| JOHN FORBES M.D. - 1843 - 594 pages
...evidence. That before a plea of insanity should be allowed, undoubted evidence ought to be adJuced that the accused was of diseased mind, and that at the time he committed lie act he was not conscious of right or wrong. This opinion related to every case in which a party... | |
| JOHN FORBES M.D. - 1843 - 594 pages
...evidence. That before a plea of insanity should be allowed, undoubted evidence ought to be adJuced that the accused was of diseased mind, and that at the time he committed lie act he was not conscious of right or wrong. This opinion related to every case in which a party... | |
| 1844 - 456 pages
...charged with the commission of a crime, murder, for example, and insanity is set up as a defence ? Ass. The jury ought in all cases to be told that every...he committed the act he was not conscious of right or wrong. This opinion related to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and... | |
| Phrenology - 1844 - 444 pages
...with the commission of a crime, murder, for example, and insanity is set up as a defence ? .A .vs. The jury ought in all cases to be told that every...he committed the act he was not conscious of right or wrong. This opinion related to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1844 - 1496 pages
...every man should be considered of sane mind, unless it was clearly proved in evidence to the contrary. That before a plea of insanity should be allowed,...he committed the act he was not conscious of right or wrong. This opinion related to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and... | |
| Books - 1844 - 974 pages
...every man should be considered of sane mind, unless it was clearly proved in evidence to the contrary. That before a plea of insanity should be allowed,...he committed the act he was not conscious of right or wrong. This opinion related to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and... | |
| Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly - Medicine - 1845 - 788 pages
...would seem to mean lawful and unlawful. " Before a plea of insanity should be allowed," they say, " undoubted evidence ought to be adduced that the accused...committed the act he was not conscious of right and wrong ;" and they add, " Every person was supposed to know what the law was, and therefore nothing could... | |
| William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - Insanity (Law) - 1848 - 516 pages
...should be considered of sane mind until the contrary were clearly proved in evidence; that before the plea of insanity should be allowed, undoubted evidence...which a party was charged with an illegal act and the plea of insanity was set up. Every person was supposed to know what the law was, and, therefore,... | |
| 1852 - 746 pages
...hefore a plea of insanity should he allowed, undouhted evidence onght to he adduced that the aecused was of diseased mind, and that at the time he committed the act he was not conseious of right and wrong." Such is the view which the law takes regarding the plea of insanity,... | |
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