 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 764 pages
...provided by the Penal Code (§ 21): " A person is not NY Rep.] Opinion of the Court, per CHASE, J. excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile,...lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at tlie time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as... | |
 | 1915 - 1352 pages
...imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...he was laboring under such a defect of reason as: 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, 2. Not to know that the act was... | |
 | New York (State). Board of Charities - 1906 - 1550 pages
...an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at tbe time of committing tie alleged criminal act. he was laboring under such a...reason, as either. 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or 2. Not to know that the act was wrong. (As amended by chapter 384 of the... | |
 | New York (State). Board of Charities - 1910 - 1028 pages
...imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at the Vol. Ill — 11 time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - Neurology - 1884 - 788 pages
...insanity or lumicy, so as to be Incapable of understanding the proceedings or making bis defense. $ 21. A person is not excused from criminal liability, as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane person, or of unsound mind, except upon proof that at the time of committing the alleged criminal act he was... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1881 - 242 pages
...insanity, or lunacy, so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. § 21. A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, or of unsound mind, except upon proof that, at the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1882 - 806 pages
...proceeding or making his defense. Section twenty-one is hereby amended so as to read as follows : § 21. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...reason as either, 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or 2. Not to know that the act was wrong. Section fiftv-one is amended so... | |
 | Nervous system - 1883 - 790 pages
...that of his insanity. The New Code of the State of New York, amended in 1882, has this language : " A person is not excused from criminal liability as...reason as either 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or 2. Not to know that the act was wrong." Had the makers of this code had... | |
 | Medicine - 1896 - 546 pages
...cases Laws Relating; to Voluntary Intoxication In New York. Section I, Penal Code, State of New York: A person is not excused from criminal liability as...was laboring under such a defect of reason as either not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or that the act was wrong. Our courts have... | |
 | New York (State) - Criminal law - 1884 - 1000 pages
...uncontrollable impulse to commit crime. Id. § 21. Irresponsibility, etc., of idiots, lunatics, etc. — A person is not excused from criminal liability as...committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring undei such a defect of reason as either, 1. Not to know the nature and quality of tiie act he was doing;... | |
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A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as £either] : . 1. Not to know... 
