 | Allan McLane Hamilton, Edwin Lawrence Godkin - 1894
...principles laid down by the English courts. In the State of New York the statutes simply state that " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense." The humane spirit of this statute cannot be denied, and it will be noted that nothing is... | |
 | Allan McLane Hamilton, Edwin Lawrence Godkin - 1894
...principles laid down by the English courts. In the State of New York the statutes simply state that " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense." The humane spirit of this statute cannot be denied, and it will be rioted that nothing is... | |
 | Rudolph August Witthaus - 1896
...wrong in the particular act.' The provision of 2 New York Revised Statutes, 097, section 2, that '' no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence" means, "no act done by a person in a state of insanity in respect to such act can be punished as an... | |
 | Allan McLane Hamilton, Edwin Lawrence Godkin - 1900
...principles laid down by the English courts. In the State of New York the statutes simply state that " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense." The humane spirit of this statute cannot be denied, and it will be noted that nothing is... | |
 | 1907
...form of mental disease." New York has practically made her statute accord to this. The statute says: "No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense." Again Dr. Sachs says (loc. tit.) : "All nations agree in absolving from responsibility a... | |
 | 1886
...of the insane in asylums to-day perfectly appreciate this difference as well as sane persons do. " 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... | |
 | 1898
...of mental disease." New York has practically made her statute accord to this. The statute says : " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." Again says Dr. Sachs (loo. cit.) : " All nations agree in absolving from responsibility a person of... | |
 | 1863
...insanity at the period of committing the act." The law of the state of New- York on this subject says : " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence ; and no insane person can be tried and sentenced to any punishment, or be punished for any crime or... | |
 | Medico-Legal Society (Great Britain) - 1905
...if the accused was in a state of madness at the time of the act." Revised Statutes of New York.—" No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." The great merit of these enactments is that, while abstaining from defining the indefinable, they leave... | |
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No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence... 
