 Every person was supposed to know what the law was, and therefore nothing could justify a wrong act, except it was clearly proved that the party did not know right from wrong.  Medical jurisprudence - Page 575by Alfred Swaine Taylor - 1853 - 621 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1844 - 978 pages
...to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and a plea of insanity was set up. Every person was supposed to know what the law was,...justify a wrong act, except it was clearly proved the party did not know right from wrong. If that was not satisfactorily proved, the accused was liable... | |
 | JOHN FORBES M.D. - 1843 - 594 pages
...to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and a plea of insanity was *et up. Every person was supposed to know what the law was,...know right from wrong. If that was not satisfactorily proved.the accused was liable to punishment; and it was the duty of the judge so to tell the jury when... | |
 | JOHN FORBES M.D. - 1843 - 594 pages
...to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and a plea of insanity was *et up. Every person was supposed to know what the law was,...know right from wrong. If that was not satisfactorily proved.the accused was liable to punishment; and it was the duty of the judge so to tell the jury when... | |
 | Medicine - 1843 - 564 pages
...to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and a plea of insanity was set up. Every person was supposed to know what the law was,...and, therefore, nothing could justify a wrong act unless it was clearly proved that the party did not know right from wrong. If that was not satisfactorily... | |
 | 1844 - 456 pages
...to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and a plea of insanity waa set up. Every person was supposed to know what the law was,...satisfactorily proved, the accused was liable to punishment; and it was the duty of the judge so to tell the jury when summing up the evidence, accompanied by those... | |
 | Phrenology - 1844 - 444 pages
...to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and a plea of insanity was set up. Every person was supposed to know what the law was,...satisfactorily proved, the accused was liable to punishment; and it was the duty of the judge so to tell the jury when summing up the evidence, accompanied by those... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1844 - 1496 pages
...to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and a plea of insanity was set up. Every person was supposed to know what the law was,...justify a wrong act, except it was clearly proved the party did not know right from wrong. If that was not satisfactorily proved, the accused was liable... | |
 | Books - 1844 - 974 pages
...to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and a plea of insanity was set up. Every person was supposed to know what the law was,...justify a wrong act, except it was clearly proved the party did not know right from wrong. If that was not satisfactorily proved, the accused was liable... | |
 | Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly - Medicine - 1845 - 788 pages
...to every case in which a party was charged with an illegal act, and a plea of insanity was set up. Every person was supposed to know what the law was, and therefore nothing could justify a wrong act, eicept it was clearly proved that the party did not know right from wrong. If that was not satisfactorily... | |
 | Charities - 1845 - 440 pages
...and that at the time he 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 justify a wrong net, except it was clearly proved that the party did not know right from wrong.' Yet numerous cases... | |
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