...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,...controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of the power of control has been produced by his own default. Of course, if a man's self-control is suspended by...

...follows: "No act is a crime if the person who does It, at the time when it is done, is prevented by either mental power or by any disease affecting his mind...to control has been produced by his own default." In all cases where murder has bean committed by an epileptic the law should be amended to allow of...

...stated as follows in Sir James Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law : — "No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done...mental power, or] by any disease affecting his mind. " (a) From knowing the nature and quality 6t his act, or " (b) From knowing that the act is wrong1...

...proposition regarding insanity as an excuse for crime in the following manner: — " No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done...mental power or] by any disease affecting his mind — (a) from knowing the nature and quality of his act; or (6) from knowing that the act is wrong;...

...and F., 666), the bracketed passage in the following statement of the law: " No act is a crime if the person who does it is, at the time when it is done,...mental power or] by any disease affecting his mind, " (a.) From knowing the nature and quality of his act ; or, "(b.) From knowing that the act is wrong;...

...2 ) Den engelske strafferet gjengives af Getz efter Stephens saaledes: «No act is a crime, if the person, who does it, is at the time, when it is done,...mental power or by any disease affecting his mind: a) from knowing the natur and quality of his act or b) from knowing that the act is wrong or c) from...

...of the English law as to insanity, from his standpoint, as follows : — " No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done,...mental power or] by any disease affecting his mind — (a) From knowing the nature and quality of his act, or (b) From knowing that the act is wrong [or...

...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...mental power or] by any disease affecting his mind (a) from knowing the nature and quality of his act, &c." Stephen, Dig. Art. 27, p. 15. The part bracketed...

...test of responsibility and no act is considered a crime if the person who commits it is, at the time, prevented, either by defective mental power or by...controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of power to control has been produced by his own fault. Undoubtedly much was done toward preventing the...