 ... the question to the jury on these occasions has generally been, whether the accused at the time of doing the act, knew the difference between right .and wrong; which mode, though rarely, if ever, leading to any mistake with the jury, is not...  A Manual of medical jurisprudence - Page 725by Alfred Swaine Taylor - 1892 - 790 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Law - 1844 - 500 pages
...leading to any mistake with the jury, is not, as we conceive, so accurate when put generally and in the abstract, as when put with reference to the party's...right and wrong in respect to the very act with which lie is charged. If the question were to te put as to the knowledge of the accused solely and exclusively... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...leading to any mistake with the jury, is not, as we conceive, so accurate when -put generally and in the abstract, as when put with reference to the party's...with which he is charged. If the question were to bo put as to the knowledge of the accused solely and exclusively with reference to the law of the land,... | |
 | William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - Insanity (Law) - 1848 - 510 pages
...ever, leading to any mistake with the jury, is not deemed so accurate when put generally and in the abstract, as when put with reference to the party's...respect to the very act with which he is charged." (2 Greenl. Ev. § 373.) This is the rule laid down by all the English Judges but one, in the late case... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1851 - 552 pages
...paity's knowledge of right and wrong in respect to the very act be is charged. If the question we<r to be put as to the knowledge of the accused solely and exclusively with reference to the !i«• of the land, it might tend to confound the jury, by inducing them to believe that an actual... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1851 - 552 pages
...the jury, is not, as we conceive, so accurate when put generally, and in the abstract, [as when put to the party's knowledge of right and wrong in respect to the very act he is charged. If the question were to be put as to the knowledge of the accused solely and exclusively... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1854 - 784 pages
...ever, leading to any mistake with the Jury, is not deemed so accurate when put generally and in the abstract, as when put with reference to the party's...wrong in respect to the very act with which he is charged.1 for a criminal act in one or two modes : — Either the delusion is such that the person... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Huntington, James T. Roberts - Insanity - 1857 - 502 pages
...abstract, or whether we adopt the modification (if indeed it be one) of. the Judges, and restrict it to a knowledge of right and wrong in respect to the very act with which he is charged, it is equally and absolutely futile. It might be sufficient to appeal to the testimony of those who... | |
 | Chandler Robbins Gilman - 1857 - 28 pages
...abstract, or whether we adopt the modification (if indeed it be one) of the Judges, and restrict it to a knowledge of right and wrong in respect to the very act with which he is charged, it is equally and absolutely futile. It might be sufficient to appeal to the testimony of those who... | |
 | 1858 - 1118 pages
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 | Francis Wharton - 1860 - 1072 pages
...ever, leading to any mistake with the jury, is not deemed so accurate, when put generally and in the abstract, as when put with reference to the party's...respect to the very act with which he is charged.' This is the rule laid down by all the Knglish judges but one, in the late case of McNaghton, while... | |
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