The Trial of Daniel McFarland for the Shooting of Albert D. Richardson, the Alleged Seducer of His WifeAmerican News Company, 1870 - 209 Seiten |
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25th of November 72 Amity street Albert D ardson asked Astor House believe brain Calhoun called cause charge child committed conversation Court crime Cross-examined Daniel McFarland Danny deceased defendant disease District-Attorney evidence examination excited fact Farland father feel frenzy friends gentlemen Gerry Graham Graham-I Greeley habeas corpus hand hear heard Honor Horace Greeley husband insanity Jersey City jury kill knew lady lived look marriage married McFar ment mental mind months morphine murder never New-York night November 25 o'clock object occasion occurred Oliver Johnson Percy person pistol prisoner private counsel prosecution question recollect reference remember Richardson sane sanity shooting shot Sinclair sleep stand suppose talk tell temporary insanity testimony thing thought tion told took trial Tribune office troubles week White Mountains wife witness woman wrong
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Seite 166 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Seite 166 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Seite 166 - ... she openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness : she looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her : many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Seite 169 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Seite 170 - If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
Seite 176 - In order to constitute a crime, a person must have intelligence and capacity enough to have a criminal intent and purpose; and if his reason and mental powers are either so deficient that he has no will, no conscience or controlling mental power, or if, through the overwhelming violence of mental disease, his intellectual power is for the time obliterated, he is not a responsible moral agent, and is not punishable for criminal acts.
Seite 166 - She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night. She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
Seite 173 - ... he was committing, or, in other words, whether he was under the influence of a diseased mind, and was really unconscious at the time he was committing the act that it was a crime.
Seite 166 - She is like the merchants' ships ; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it : with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
Seite 179 - ... the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every 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 satisfaction; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of...