 | William Dickinson, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1845 - 1268 sidor
...and quality of the act he was doing, or as not to know that it was wrong (<?). A medical man who has been present in court and heard the evidence may be asked as a matter of science whether the fact stated by the witnesses, supposing them true, show a state of mind incapable of distinguishing... | |
 | Richard Newcombe Gresley - 1847 - 744 sidor
...evidence, he may be asked, as a matter of science, whether, supposing the facts to be as testified, they show a state of mind incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong; M'Naghten's case, 10 Cl. & Fin. 200. And as to the use at Nisi Prius, of the testimony of a scientific... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852 - 392 sidor
...delusion exists, were real. That where an accused person is supposed to be insane, a medical man who has been present in court and heard the evidence, may...witnesses, supposing them to be true, show a state of a mind incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong. — Daniel McNaghten's Case, 10 Clark $... | |
 | Amasa Junius Parker - 1858 - 734 sidor
...a medical man who had been present in court and heard the evidence, whether, as matter of science, the facts stated by the witnesses, supposing them...incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong. And it was allowed ( 10 Clark Sf Fin., 200), and the prisoner was acquitted. So that the point under... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Foster, William Francis Finlason - 1862 - 914 sidor
...laid down that, where an accused person is supposed to be insane, a medical man, who has 1862. Hr.niNA LAW. there was a state of disease resulting from childbirth,...leave to the jury, and also that the medical man is (o give his opinion as on a matter of science, ie on matters within his proper cognizance as a medical... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly - 1868 - 458 sidor
...exist, were real.—Id. That where an accused person is supposed to be insane, a medical man who has been present in Court and heard the evidence, may...incapable of distinguishing • between right and wrong.—Id. INSOLVENT. See ASSIGNMENT. BANKRUPT. An insolvent debtor has not such an interest in property... | |
 | John Ordronaux - 1869 - 338 sidor
...have permitted questions of a purely metaphysical character to be put to experts, as for instance, whether the facts stated by the witnesses, supposing...incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong* § 135. Of this test it is not asserting too much to say that it is the least valuable of any ever... | |
 | Robert Alexander Fisher - 1871 - 722 sidor
...delusion exists, were real. Ib. Where an accused person is supposed to be insane, a medical man who has been present in court and heard the evidence may be...incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong. Ib. ; S. P. Rex v. Bright, R. &R. С. С. 456 ; Rex v. Searle, l M. & Rob. 75. To entitle a prisoner... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly - 1874 - 852 sidor
...delusion exists, were real.a That where an accused person is supposed to be insane, a medical man, who has been present in Court and heard the evidence, may...witnesses, supposing them to be true, show a state of miud incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong.4 May 26; June 19, 1843. THE prisoner had... | |
 | James Hannay - 1878 - 532 sidor
...case (10 Cl. & F. 200) , that where the accused person is supposed to be insane, a medical man who has been present in Court and heard the evidence, may...incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong. In this case, the medical men were asked from the evidence they had heard in the case, to what would... | |
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That where an accused person is supposed to be insane, a medical man, who has been present in Court and heard the evidence, may be asked, as a matter of science, whether the facts stated by the witnesses, supposing them to be true, show a state of mind... 
