 | Law - 1857 - 386 pages
...delusions respecting one or more particular subjects or persons, is charged with the commission of a crime (murder, for example), and insanity is set up as a defence ? " In what terms ought the question to be left to the jury, as to the prisoner's state of mind, at... | |
 | William Campbell Sleigh - Commercial law - 1858 - 184 pages
...proper questions to be submitted to the jury, when a person alleged to * Hale's Pleas of the Crown, 34. be afflicted with insane delusion respecting one or...questions appear to us to be more conveniently answered together, we have to submit our opinion to be, that the jury ought to be told in all cases that every... | |
 | Theodric Romeyn Beck - 1860 - 910 pages
...the law of the land. Questions 2 and 3 had reference to the particular terms in which the question, as to the prisoner's state of mind at the time when the act was committed, should be left to the jury, when insanity was set up as a defence. The answer was, in substance, that... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1861 - 822 pages
...delusions, respecting one or more particular subjects or persons, is charged with the commission of a crime — murder, for example — and insanity is set up as a defence? Answer: Before a plea of insanity should be allowed, undoubted evidence ought to be adduced, that the... | |
 | India, Sir Walter Morgan, Arthur George Macpherson - Criminal law - 1861 - 544 pages
...question put to them by the House of Lords in 1844, as to the terms in which the question, respecting the prisoner's state of mind at the time when the act was committed, ought to be proposed to the jury, stated — " The jury ought to be told in all pases that every man... | |
 | Law - 1865 - 408 pages
...charged with the commission of a crime ("murder, for example), and insanity is set up as a defence ? " 3. In what terms ought the question to be left to the...state of mind at the time when the act was committed ? " 4. If a person under an insane delusion as to existing facts, commits an offence in consequence... | |
 | Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of New York - Homeopathy - 1868 - 818 pages
...subjects or persons, is charged with the commission of crime and insanity is eet up as a defense ?" " In what terms ought the question to be left to the...state of mind at the time when the act was committed ?" Answer. — " The jury ought to be told, in all cases, that every man is presumed to be sane, and... | |
 | Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of New York - Homeopathy - 1868 - 818 pages
...subjects or persons, is charged with the commission of crime and insanity is set up as a defense ?" " In what terms ought the question to be left to the...state of mind at the time when the act was committed ?" Answer. — " The jury ought to be told, in all cases, that every man is presumed to be sane, and... | |
 | Law - 1870 - 546 pages
...example), and insanity is set up as a defense ? 3. In what terms ought the question to be left to he jury as to the prisoner's state of mind at the time when the act was committed? "4. If a person, under an insane delusion as to existng facts, commits an offense in consequence thereof,... | |
 | Law - 1870 - 546 pages
...insane delusion respecting one or more particular subjects or persons, is charged with the commission of a crime (murder, for example), and insanity is set up as a defense? " 3. In what terms ought the question to be left to the jury as to the prisoner's state of... | |
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What are the proper questions to be submitted to the jury, where a person alleged to be afflicted with insane delusion respecting one or more particular subjects or persons, is charged with the commission of a crime (murder, for example), and insanity... 
