In answer thereto, we state to your lordships, that we think the medical man, under the circumstances supposed, cannot in strictness be asked his opinion in the terms above stated, because each of those questions involves the determination of the truth... A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors - Page 126by Sir William Oldnall Russell, Horace Smith, Alfred Percival Perceval Keep - 1896 - 844 pagesFull view - About this book
| Law - 1844 - 500 pages
...he would be liable to punishment. In answer to the last question, we statu to your Lordships, that we think the medical man, under the circumstances...for the jury to decide; and the questions are not mere questions upon a matter of science, in which case such evidence is admissible. But where the facts... | |
| Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Courts, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 856 pages
...labouring under any and what delusion at the time ?' In answer thereto, we state to your lordships, that we think the medical man, under the circumstances...for the jury to decide, and the questions are not mere questions upon a matter of science, in which case such evidence is admissible. But, where the... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 1114 pages
...labouring under any and what delusion at the time?" In answer thereto, we state to your lordships, that we think the medical man, under the circumstances...for the jury to decide ; and the questions are not mere questions upon a matter of science, in which case such evidence is admissible. But, where the... | |
| John Frederick Archbold - Criminal procedure - 1846 - 914 pages
...revenge for such supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment." And to the last question : — "We think the medical man, under the circumstances...for the jury to decide ; and the questions are not mere questions upon a matter of science, in which case such evidence is admissible. But where the facts... | |
| Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 784 pages
...he would be liable to punishment. In answer to the last question, we state to your Lordships, that 8 on which it is for the jury to decide; and the questions are not mere questions upon a matter of science,... | |
| Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...he would be liakle to punishment. In answer to the last question, we state to your Lordships, that we think the medical man, under the circumstances...asked his opinion in the terms above stated, because eacli of those questions involves the determination of the truth of the facts deposed, on which it... | |
| Law - 1855 - 736 pages
...whether he was laboring under any and what delusion at the time. And their reply was in these words: " We think the medical man, under the circumstances...supposed, cannot in strictness be asked his opinion B the terms above staled, because each of those questions involves the determination of the truth of... | |
| Edward Hazen Parker - Medicine - 1851 - 694 pages
...contrary to law, or whether he was laboring under any and what delusion at the time? ANSWER. — " We think the medical man, under the circumstances...for the jury to decide ; and the questions are not mere questions upon a matter of science, in which case such evidence is admissible, But where the facts... | |
| Scotland - 1850 - 866 pages
...his opinion in the terms above stated ; becanse each of those questions involves the determinatiou of the truth of the facts deposed to, which it is for the jury to decide; and the questions are not mere questions upon a matter of science, in which case such evidence is admissible. But where the facts... | |
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