... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality... A Treatise on the Law of Evidence - Page 358by Simon Greenleaf, Simon Greenleaf Croswell - 1883Full view - About this book
| Albany Institute - Albany (N.Y.) - 1883 - 402 pages
...following answer : " The jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible...proved to their satisfaction ; and that to establish a defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 962 pages
...an opinion of his own, but it did not in any way differ from the other Judges), says — "It must be proved that at the time of committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality... | |
| Law - 1844 - 500 pages
...to be, that the jury ought to be told in all cases, that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible...time of committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality... | |
| Law - 1844 - 506 pages
...certain questions propounded to them by the house of lords, that to render a parly irresponsible, " it must be clearly proved that at the time of committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason from disease of mind, as not to know the nature and quality... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 1114 pages
...opinion to be, that the jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible...insanity, it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease... | |
| 1845 - 986 pages
...matter. — " Tlie Jury ought to be told in all cases, that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible...insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of the commission of the act, the party accused was labouring under guch n dekt of reason, from disease... | |
| Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Courts, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 856 pages
...to be, that the jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible...insanity, it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease... | |
| John Frederick Archbold - Criminal procedure - 1846 - 914 pages
...questions: — " That the jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible...insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease... | |
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