| 1907 - 522 Seiten
...form of mental disease." New York has practically made her statute accord to this. The statute says: "No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense." Again Dr. Sachs says (loc. tit.) : "All nations agree in absolving from responsibility a... | |
| 1898 - 726 Seiten
...of mental disease." New York has practically made her statute accord to this. The statute says : " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." Again says Dr. Sachs (loo. cit.) : " All nations agree in absolving from responsibility a person of... | |
| George Frederick Arnold - 1913 - 634 Seiten
...madness at the time of the act " In the revised Statutes of the State of New York it is enacted that ' ' no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." According to the German Penal Code : ' ' An act is punishable when the person at the time of doing... | |
| 1913 - 876 Seiten
...foreign countries, are in substantial harmony with this doctrine. According to the laws of ISew York, "No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." The French law is slightly more specific: "There can be no crime nor offence if the accused was in... | |
| 1913 - 952 Seiten
...the insane, and excuse them from answering for crimes and misdemeanors. Speaking broadly, no act done in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence, and no person who becomes insane after committing an offence can be tried while his insanity continues. One... | |
| William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe - 1913 - 932 Seiten
...the insane, and excuse them from answering for crimes and misdemeanors. Speaking broadly, no act done in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence, and no person who becomes insane after committing an offence can be tried while his insanity continues. One... | |
| 1919 - 1804 Seiten
...case of Freeman v. People, 4 Denip, 9, 47 Am. Dec. 216, the court considered a statute which declared: "No insane person can be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for any crime or offense, while he continues in that state." The court stated that this statute was in strict conformity... | |
| Maurice Hamblin Smith - 1922 - 200 Seiten
...was in a state of madness at the time of the act." The statutes of the State of New York enact that : "No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." Both the latter are practical definitions. '/But it may be objected, what is a state of madness or... | |
| 1863 - 652 Seiten
...insanity at the period of committing the act." The law of the state of New- York on this subject says : " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can...as an offence ; and no insane person can be tried and sentenced to any punishment, or be punished for any crime or offence committed in this state."... | |
| John Cuthbert Goodwin - 1923 - 352 Seiten
...a state of madness at the time of the act," and the Statutes of the State of New York affirm that " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." A growing number of thinking people are beginning to doubt the sanity of all murderers, on Behaviourist... | |
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