 | Albany Institute - Albany (N.Y.) - 1883 - 402 pages
...for his crimes until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction ; and that to establish a defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved...time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 1114 pages
...every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their...insanity, it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease... | |
 | 1845 - 986 pages
...man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their...insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of the commission of the act, the party accused was labouring under guch n dekt of reason, from disease... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Courts, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 856 pages
...man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their...insanity, it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Courts, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 824 pages
...suffi- 1843. cient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary ,-~-v— —' be proved to their satisfaction ; and that, to establish a defence on the RF.GINA. ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of the coin- HIGCINSON. mitting... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal procedure - 1846 - 914 pages
...every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their...insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 970 pages
...until the contrary is satisfactorily proved; and to Irvin v. The State of Florida— Opinion of Court. establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it...proved that at the time of committing the act the ?ccused was laboring under such defect of reason as not to know the nature and quality of the act he... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...of reason, to be responsible fur his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction; aud that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved, that at the time of commuting the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason from disease or the... | |
 | William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - Insanity (Law) - 1848 - 516 pages
...right and wrong at the time when the act was done. In such cases the jury should be instructed that " it must be clearly proved that at the time of committing the act the party accused was laboring under snch a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quaKty... | |
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... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of the committing of the act the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality... 
