Medical jurisprudence, forensic medicine and toxicology,. v. 3, 1896, Band 3W. Wood & Company, 1896 |
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acuteness of vision affected alcohol alleged amaurotic amblyopia appear application appoint astigmatism asylum attack brain cause character charge cicatrix ciliary ciliary body committed condition confined conjunctiva contract contusion cornea court crime criminal death defendant delirium tremens delusion dementia diplopia discharged enucleation epilepsy epileptic especially evidence examination exciting eyeball eyelid fact foreign body forms of insanity fracture frequently guardian hallucinations held homicide hospital Ibid idiot impaired impulse inflammation injury insane person insured intoxication iritis irritation judge jury lens lesions lunacy lunatic mania melancholia mental disease murder N. Y. Supp observed occur ophthalmoscope optic nerve orbit paresis patient physician presbyopia present probate question reason red glass refraction result retina rupture S. W. Rep sane sanity sclera statute sufficient sympathetic inflammation sympathetic ophthalmia symptoms testator tion trial unsound mind usually uveal tract vitreous ward wound
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Seite 352 - ... 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 labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Seite 468 - Every guardian so appointed, as provided in the preceding section, shall have the care and custody of the person of his ward, and the management of all his estate...
Seite 433 - Whenever it appears by affidavit to the satisfaction of a magistrate of a county, or city and county, that any person therein is so far disordered in his mind as to endanger health, person, or property...
Seite 351 - Can a medical man, conversant with the disease of insanity, who never saw the prisoner previously to the trial, but who was present during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime, or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act that he was acting contrary to law, or whether he was labouring under any and what delusion at the time?
Seite 306 - ... power of the will and conscience ; and the rule suggested would be the cover for the commission of crime and its justification. The doctrine that a criminal act may be excused upon the notion of an irresistible impulse to commit it, where the offender has the ability to discover his legal and moral duty in respect to it, has no place in the law.
Seite 352 - ... notwithstanding the party accused did the act complained of with a view, under the influence of insane delusion, of redressing or revenging some supposed grievance or injury, or of producing some public benefit, he is nevertheless punishable according to the nature of the crime committed if he knew at the time of committing such crime that he was acting contrary to law by which expression we understand your Lordships to mean the law of the land.
Seite 351 - The question to be determined is, whether, at the time the act in question was committed, the prisoner had or had not the use of his understanding, so as to know that he was doing a wrong or wicked act. If the jurors should be of opinion that the prisoner was not sensible, at the time he committed it, that he was violating the laws both of God and man...
Seite 306 - If some controlling disease was, in truth, the acting power within him, which he could not resist, or if he had not a sufficient use of his reason to control the passions which prompted him, he is not responsible.
Seite 92 - The policy itself purports to be subject to a proviso that it shall not extend to any "bodily injury of which there shall be no external and visible sign : nor to any bodily injury happening directly or indirectly in consequence of disease; nor to any death or disability which may have been caused wholly or in part by bodily infirmities or disease...
Seite 81 - These questions were, in substance, whether the person whose life was proposed for insurance had had certain diseases, or, during the next preceding •seven years, any disease, and the answers given were that he had not.