| Edward Livingston - 1822 - Liczba stron: 164
...imprisonment for life ; then one month of such imprisonment, in every year, shall be in solitude. ART. 30. No act done by a person in a state of INSANITY can be punished as an offence. No person becoming INSANE after he has committed an offence, can be tried for the same. No person becoming... | |
| Edward Livingston - 1824 - Liczba stron: 170
...imprisonment for life; then one month of such imprisonment, in every year, shall be in solitude. ART. 30. No act done by a person in a state of INSANITY can be punished as an offence. No person becoming INSANE after he has committed an offence, can be tried for the same. No person becoming... | |
| 1843 - Liczba stron: 516
...responsibility. In Livingston's code (New Orleans, 1824, chap. I11, p. 15,) we have the following words : — " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." The revised statutes of the state of New York, (Albany, 1836, vol. ii, p. 582,) contain the same words.... | |
| New York (State) - 1829 - Liczba stron: 882
...the courts deriving their jurisdiction under the laws and constitution of the United States.59 § 2. No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punish- insane p«r ed as an offence ; and no insane person can be tried, sentenced to any (89) i*wi... | |
| New York (State) - 1829 - Liczba stron: 878
...the courts deriving their jurisdiction under the laws and constitution of the United States.60 S 2. No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punish- in«!mopw-., i . i • ii aoiw. ed as an offence ; and no insane person can be tried, sentenced... | |
| Edward Livingston - 1833 - Liczba stron: 766
...imprisonment for life, then one month of such imprisonment, in every year, shall be in solitude. Art. 35. No act done by a person in a state of INSANITY, can be punished as an offence. No person becoming INSANE after he has committed an offence, can be tried for the same. No person becoming... | |
| Edward Livingston - 1833 - Liczba stron: 768
...imprisonment for life, then one month of such imprisonment, in every year, shall be in solitude. Art. 35. No act done by a person in a state of INSANITY, can be punished as an offence. No person becoming INSANE after he has committed an offence, can be tried for the same. No person becoming... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1841 - Liczba stron: 834
...it.(rf) This is the doctrine of the common law. Besides, it is now expressly provided by statute, that " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence."(e) One great difficulty which a magistrate has to encounter is, to distinguish between such... | |
| William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1848 - Liczba stron: 516
...on this subject intended to abrogate or qualify the Common Law rule. The words of the statute are, " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." (2 RS 697 § 2.) The clause is very comprehensive in its terms, and at first blush might seem to exempt... | |
| William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1848 - Liczba stron: 510
...preliminary to any further proceedings upon the indictment. be capable of answering to a criminal charge. No insane person can be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for any crime or offence whilst he continues in that state. [2 RS, 582.] To try that question in the case of the prisoner, you... | |
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