...and executing the killing and escaping or avoiding detection, nor ability to recognize acquaintances, or to labor or transact business or manage affairs,...are purely matters of fact to be determined by the jury. 20 18 At the present time some seventeen states supplement the M'Naghten rule with another and...

...executing the killing, and escaping or avoiding detection, nor ability to recognize acquaintances, or to labor or transact business or manage affairs,...that all symptoms and all tests of mental disease we purely matters of fact to be determined by the jury. Under these instructions, whether the accused...

...v. Pike," Judge Doe told the jury that there was no single rigid test of "mental disease"; rather, "all symptoms and all tests of mental disease are purely matters of fact," grist for the jury's mill.14 Judge Doe felt that the law should abandon "old exploded medical theories"...

...and executing the killing and escaping or avoiding detection, nor ability to recognize acquaintances or to labor or transact business or manage affairs,...are purely matters of fact to be determined by the jury; that whether there is such a mental disease as dipsomania, and whether defendant had that disease,...

...avoiding detection; nor ability to recognize acquaintances, or to labor, or to transact business, or to manage affairs, is, as a matter of law, a test of...are purely matters of fact to be determined by the jury." Under this ruling the presence of medical witnesses in court is unnecessary and the expression...

...labor, nor tiansact business cr manage affaiis, is, as a matUr »' law, a test of mental disase; but all symptoms and all tests of mental disease are purely matters of fact, to be determined by the jury. Whether the deiendant had a mental disease, and whether the killing of his wife was the product...

...without hciug sworn as a witness, and showing himself qualified to testify as an expert." In fine, all symptoms and all tests of mental disease are purely matters of fact to be determined by the jury from the evidence of competent witnesses ; and since " legal precedent was one way, legal principle...

...killing, and escaping or avoiding detection, nor inability to recognize acquaintances, or to labor, or to transact business, or manage affairs, is, as a matter of law, a test of mental disease ; but all symptoms and all tests of mental disease are purely matters of fact to be determined by the jury;...

...whole difficulty is that courts have undertaken to declare that to be law which is a matter of fact. All symptoms and all tests of mental disease are purely matters of fact for the jury, and not matters of law for the judge." Doe, J., 87. I never realized before that intelligent...