 | Illinois State Medical Society - 1875 - 302 Seiten
...which they should be held responsible. Hence the statute of the State of New York, which enact that, "no act done by a person in a state of insanity, can be punished as an offense," prejudges the case, by assuming to decide upon a matter of fact that should be determined... | |
 | 1876 - 672 Seiten
...the most recent American Code, that of the State of New York, we find it adopted in these words, " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." In France the investigation of the mental condition of the accused is made by phsyicians appointed... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1876 - 828 Seiten
...disease of mind by which a free determination of the will was excluded." And in New York law, — " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense." But in reality this feeling is directed not against punishment in general, but against capital... | |
 | 1882 - 664 Seiten
...not criminally accountable." This he declined to charge, but charged in the words of the statute that "no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense." Held, No error. The Court was requested to charge that " the defendant in a criminal case... | |
 | 1876 - 826 Seiten
...disease of mind by which a free determination of the will was excluded." And in New York law, — " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense." But in reality this feeling is directed not against punishment in general, but against capital... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1880 - 844 Seiten
...peremptory challenges; but challenges for cause may be made. Ibid. By the New York Revised Statutes, " no act done by a person in a state of insanity can...crime or offence, while he continues in that state. 2 Rev. Stat. 582-3. In the same State, by the Act of May 17, 1869, chap. 895, " if any person in confinement... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1880 - 362 Seiten
...peremptory challenges; but challenges for cause maybe made. Ibid. By the New York Revised Statutes, " no act done by a person in a state of insanity can...crime or offence, while he continues in that state. 2 Rev. Stat 582-3. In the same State, by the Act of May 17, 1869, chap. 895, " if any person in confinement... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1880 - 722 Seiten
...which a free determination of will was excluded." And the revised statutes of New York enact, that "no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." Although some of these rules have been praised as incomparably better than that which is laid down... | |
 | Joseph W. Donovan - 1881 - 710 Seiten
...as to unaccountability for a criminal act committed in a state of insanity, and held that the words "no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense " referred to a state of insanity " in reference to such act." He rather condemns the submission... | |
 | Medico-Legal Society, Medico-Legal Society of New York - 1886 - 628 Seiten
...previous to his insanity. Our own statutes reaffirm these principles in the following words, viz. : "No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense ; and no insane person can be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for any crime... | |
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Our statutes may declare, as they do, that " no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense, and no insane person can be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for any crime or offense while he continues in that... 
