 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 706 pages
...until the contrary is shown by sufficient evidence, and the law presumes further that a man possesses a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes until the contrary is shown. Such proof in support of insanity must be affirmatively established by positive or circumstantial... | |
 | India - Criminal law - 1874 - 656 pages
...the law of the land." To the 2nd and 3rd questions : " That the jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess...be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction ; and that, to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Criminal law - 1874 - 834 pages
...to them by the House of Lords in June, 1843. " The jury," they said, " ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess...be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction ; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 732 pages
...upon the subject of insanity. Among other statements, the judge had used this language to the jury: "Every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess...sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his acts. When the question of insanity is presented upon the evidence, the prisoner is entitled to tho... | |
 | Fendall Currie - Criminal procedure - 1874 - 360 pages
...inasmuch as there can be no consent of the will, so the act cannot be culpable. Every man, however, is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his actions, until the contrary has been satisfactorily proved ; and in order to establish a defence on... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Homicide - 1875 - 854 pages
...them by the house of lords, in June, 1843. " The jury," they said, " ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess...be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction ; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 462 pages
...the principal one was this: "The jury ought to be told In all cases that every man ts to be presumed sane and to possess a sufficient degree of reason...to be responsible for his crimes until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction ; and thut to establish ;i defense on the ground of insanity it must... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 858 pages
...returned was — "The jury ought to be told in all cas>es that every man is to be presumed to be sane (t), a carrier of passengers for hire, and there be ho privity between the defendan (r) Maule, J., dût. (t) Vide per Rolfe, В., 3 Саг. & К. 188. (») 10 Cl. & F. 200. Mere " moral... | |
 | India - Criminal law - 1877 - 1088 pages
...was laid down in Reg. v. M'Naughten, 10 Cl. and Fin. 200. " The jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess...be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction ; and that, to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must... | |
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... the jurors 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 for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction; and that to establish a defence... 
