 | Francis Wharton - 1880 - Liczba stron: 844
...peremptory challenges; but challenges for cause may be made. Ibid. By the New York Revised Statutes, " no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence; and no insane person can be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for any crime or offence,... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1880 - Liczba stron: 722
...which a free determination of will was excluded." And the revised statutes of New York enact, that "no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." Although some of these rules have been praised as incomparably better than that which is laid down... | |
 | Joseph W. Donovan - 1881 - Liczba stron: 710
...as to unaccountability for a criminal act committed in a state of insanity, and held that the words "no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense " referred to a state of insanity " in reference to such act." He rather condemns the submission... | |
 | George Clark - 1881 - Liczba stron: 766
...of twenty-one years. Insanity and Drunkenness. ART. 39. Insanity a Defence (PC 41). — No act done in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence. No person who becomes insane after he committed an offence shall be tried for the same while in such condition.... | |
 | Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé - 1882 - Liczba stron: 832
...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 ofl'ence.' The clause is very comprehensive in its terms, and at first blush might seem to exempt from... | |
 | Medico-Legal Society, Medico-Legal Society of New York - 1886 - Liczba stron: 628
...previous to his insanity. Our own statutes reaffirm these principles in the following words, viz. : "No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense ; and no insane person can be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for any crime... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1884 - Liczba stron: 1012
...which the law allowed to exempt from legal responsibility. The provision of the statute 1 was that no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence ; and no insane person can be tried or sentenced to any punishment, or be punished for any crime or... | |
 | William Galbraith Miller - 1884 - Liczba stron: 496
...accused was in a state of madness at the time of the act." So the New York statutes provide that " no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." So again the German Penal Code says—" An act is not punishable when the person at the time of doing... | |
 | David Dudley Field - 1884 - Liczba stron: 532
...the charge of a criminal offense or its consequences. Our statutes may declare, as they do, that " no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense, and no insane person can be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for any crime... | |
 | 1884 - Liczba stron: 678
...declined to charge, except as ho intended to charge, and he did charge in the words of the statute, that " no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense." This was a much more accurate statement of the law than that requested, and it was not error... | |
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