 England, that no act is a crime if the person who does it, is at the time when it is done, prevented either by defective mental power or by any disease affecting his mind from controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of the power of control has...  A Treatise on the medical jurisprudence of insanity - Seite 6von Edward Cox Mann - 1893 - 420 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1883 - 548 Seiten
...which I have to maintain and explain is, that if it is not it ought to be the law of England, that no act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done prevented, either by defective mental power or by any disease affecting his mind, from... | |
 | 1890 - 900 Seiten
...question of responsibility." And Mr. Justice Stephen has said, " It ought to be the law of England that no act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done prevented by defective mental power, or by any disease affecting his mind, from controlling... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - 1878 - 486 Seiten
...however, be convicted of rape as a principal, but he may as a principal, in the second degree. INSANITY. No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done prevented either by defective mental powers or by any disease affecting his mind from... | |
 | Edwin Charles Clark - 1880 - 168 Seiten
...Trials, 765, per Traoey, J. 11 The act and its consequences are generally coupled together in our law. "No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done prevented [either hy defective mental power or] by any disease affecting his mind (a)... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1884 - 788 Seiten
...writer gives a digest of the English law as to insanity from his stand-point as follows : No act IB a crime if the person who does It is at the time when It is done, prevented [either by defective mental power or] by any disease affecting his mind... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1883 - 522 Seiten
...England as to the effect of madness upon criminality ? I have stated it as follows in my ^Digest. " No act is a crime if the person who does it is at " the time when it is done prevented [either by defective " mental power or] by any disease affecting his mind... | |
 | Sir James Fitzjames Stephen - 1883 - 468 Seiten
...affirmatively that such person had sufficient capacity to know that the act was wrong. ARTICLE 27. INSANITY. 4 No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it ia done prevented [5either by defective mental power or] by any disease affecting his mind... | |
 | 1883 - 886 Seiten
...in the words of the answers given by the judges upon that occasion. In general terms the law is that no act is a crime if the person who does it is, at the time when it is done, prevented, either by defective mental power or by any disease affecting his mind,... | |
 | 1886 - 494 Seiten
...they shall acquit him on that ground. When the Judges will have the boldness to say to the jury that no act is a crime if the person who does it is prevented, by any disease affecting his mind, from controlling his his own conduct, and when they will... | |
 | george b. shattuck and anner post - 1884 - 646 Seiten
...criterion, Could he help it ? Dr. Bucknill suggests, as an amendment to the law of England, th:«t no act is a crime if the person who does it is at...reason of idiocy or of disease affecting his mind. Of course no ordinary jury is competent to pass upon such a question. Dr. Bucknill quotes Colonel Corkhill's... | |
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