 ... influence, the character of manslaughter? On principle, the answer, as a general rule, must be, anything the natural tendency of which would be to produce such a state of mind in ordinary men, and which the jury are satisfied did produce it in the...  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 221by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, Hoyt Post, William Jennison, Henry Allen Chaney, Hovey K. Clarke, John Adams Brooks, James M. Reasoner, William Dudley Fuller, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, Richard W. Cooper - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 888 pages
...or adequate provocation for such a state of mind, so as to give to a homicide, committed under its influence, the character of manslaughter? on principle,...individual could hardly be held morally accountable. Nor on AM. DEC. VOL. LXXXI-60 the other hand, must the provocation, in every case, be held sufficient... | |
 | James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews - Law - 1910 - 460 pages
...reasonable or adequate provocation for such state of mind, so as to give to a homicide committed under its influence the character of manslaughter? on principle,...individual could hardly be held morally accountable. Nor, on the other hand, must the provocation, in every case, be held sufficient or reasonable, because... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1116 pages
...or adequate provocation for such a state of mind, so as to give to a homicide, committed under its influence, the character of manslaughter? on principle,...individual could hardly be held morally accountable. Nor, on the other hand, must the provocation, in every case, be held sufficient or reasonable, because... | |
 | William Mark McKinney - Law - 1916 - 1570 pages
...the requisite degree of mental disturbance may consist in anything the natural tendency of which is to produce such a state of mind in ordinary men, and...for then the individual could hardly be held morally accountable.11 Nor, on the other hand, must the provocation, in every case, be held sufficient or reasonable,... | |
 | William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich - Law - 1916 - 1582 pages
...a state of mind in ordinary men, and which the jury are satisfied did produce it in the case beforu them, — not such a provocation as must, by the laws...certainty that physical effects follow from physical cause1?; for then the individual could hardly be held morally accountable.11 Nor, on the other hand,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1116 pages
...or adequate provocation for such a state of mind, so as to give to a homicide, committed under its influence, the character of manslaughter? on principle,...excitement has followed from it; for then by habitual and long-continued indulgence of evil passions a bad man might acquire a claim to mitigation which would... | |
 | Augustin Derby - Criminal law - 1923 - 856 pages
...reasonable or adequate provocation for such state of mind, so as to give to a homicide, committed under its influence, the character of manslaughter? On principle,...individual could hardly be held morally accountable. Nor, on the other hand, must the provocation, in every case, be held sufficient or reasonable, because... | |
 | Minnesota. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 612 pages
...of which would be to produce such a state of mind in ordinary men, and which the jury are satistied did produce it in the case before them; not such a...individual could hardly be held morally accountable. Nor, on the other hand, must the provocation, in every case, be held sufficient or reasonable, because... | |
 | Carolyn R. Block, Richard L. Block - Homicide - 1994 - 248 pages
...reasonable or adequate provocation for such state of mind, so as to give to a homicide, committed under its influence, the character of manslaughter? on principle,...individual could hardly be held morally accountable. Nor, on the other hand, must the provocation, in every case, be held sufficient or reasonable, because... | |
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