 | Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé - 1882 - 832 Seiten
...this subject intended to abrogate or qualify the common law rule. The words of the statute are : ' No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an ofl'ence.' The clause is very comprehensive in its terms, and at first blush might seem to exempt from... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1883 - 840 Seiten
...of persons for committing a second offense after a misdemeanor, is also prescribed by statute, (w) ' No insane person can be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for any crime or offense, wliile he continues in that state, (z) All punishments prescribed by the common law for any... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1884 - 1012 Seiten
...state of insanity ' continuously through this charge. I do so because it is the statutory phrase — ' no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence.' " The statute did not, and no arbitrary statute could, give a definition of Insanity, which should... | |
 | William Galbraith Miller - 1884 - 496 Seiten
...accused was in a state of madness at the time of the act." So the New York statutes provide that " no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." So again the German Penal Code says—" An act is not punishable when the person at the time of doing... | |
 | David Dudley Field - 1884 - 532 Seiten
...the charge of a criminal offense or its consequences. 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... | |
 | 1884 - 678 Seiten
...declined to charge, except as ho intended to charge, and he did charge in the words of the statute, that " no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense." This was a much more accurate statement of the law than that requested, and it was not error... | |
 | Nebraska State Historical Society - 1905 - 598 Seiten
...disease, sufficient to annul criminal responsibility. In Livingston's code, it is provided that — "No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense." The revised statutes of the state of New York contain the same words. The revised statutes... | |
 | Michigan State Medical Society - 1885 - 912 Seiten
...power of resistance had been exhausted. Under the statutes of the State of New York, which provide that "no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense," it would only be necessary to prove his insanity to establish his innocence of crime. The... | |
 | 1893 - 1176 Seiten
...act. Tbe provision of the Revised Statutes (part 4, c. 1, tit. 7, § 2) which declared tbat "no ace done by a person In a state of insanity can be punished as an offense" was abrogated by the Penal Code, which provided (section 17) that responsibility is to be... | |
 | George Washington Field - 1887 - 312 Seiten
...Commonwealth v. Heath, 11 Gray (Mass.), 303. The broad doctrine on this subject may be stated as follows : No act done by a person in a state of insanity can .be regarded as an offense, and no insane person can be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished... | |
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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... 
