 | Edmund Burke - History - 1864 - 776 pages
...many were of opinion that that was an unsatisfactory trial. In Offord's case the late Lord Lyndhurst told the jury that they must be satisfied, before...committing the act that it was a crime." His lordship further said, that the jury must judge of the act by the prisoner's statements, and by what he did... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Evidence (Law) - 1842 - 1186 pages
...which satisfies yon that he was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing ; or, in other words, whether he was under the influence of a deceased mind, and was really unconscious at tbe time he was committing tbe act that it was a crime.... | |
 | Richard Clarke Sewell - Coroners - 1843 - 406 pages
...insanity which satisfied them he was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing; or, in other words, whether he...time he was committing the act, that it was a crime, (jp) Strictly speaking, in order to relieve a party from insanity the responsibility of his action,... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1843 - 1068 pages
...which satisfies you that he " was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of " the act he was committing, or, in other words, whether he...time he was committing the act, that it was a crime ?" (¿) Hadfield'scase. James Hadßeld was tried in the Court of King's Bench, in the —Shooting at... | |
 | Abner Rogers (Jr.), George Tyler Bigelow, George Bemis - Criminal liability - 1844 - 312 pages
...which satisfies you that he was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing ; or, in other words, whether he...mind, and was really unconscious at the time he was commiting the act, that it was a crime." This declaration of the law quite accords with the opinion... | |
 | Law - 1844 - 510 pages
...character, and consequences of the act he was committing, he would be excusable ; or in other words, if he was under the influence of a diseased mind, and...time he was committing the act, that it was a crime. Lord Lyndhurst, moreover, thought that it would be futile to attempt to define or describe the particular... | |
 | Samuel Owen - Law - 1845 - 434 pages
...of insanity which rendered him quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing ; or in other words, whether he...time he was committing the act, that it was a crime .'"* So also in the late trial of Daniel Me. Naughten, Chief Jusnce Tindal, in stopping the case, observed... | |
 | 1845 - 408 pages
...that he was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing ; in other words, whether he was under the influence...time he was committing the act, that it was a crime. On the trial of M'Naughten for killing Mr Drummond, in 1843, Lord Chief Justice Tindal instructed the... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 784 pages
...which satisfies them that he was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act is court of assize, or tetiione, as it seemeth by...therefore these words [in Ulce manner] ought to be omitted If the jury in such a case are of opinion that the prisoner did not in fact do all that the law deems... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...which satisfies them that lie was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing; or in other words, whether he was under the influence of a diseased niind, and was really unconscious at the time he was committing the acl, that it was a crime. If the... | |
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... he was committing ; or, in other words, whether he was under the influence of a diseased mind, and was really unconscious at the time he was committing the act that it was a crime. 
