 | Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...accurate when -put generally and in the abstract, as when put with reference to the party's knowledge of right and wrong in respect to the very act 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,... | |
 | Scotland - 1850 - 866 pages
...when put generally and in the abstract, as when put to the party's knowledge of right and wrong with respect to the very act with which he is charged....of the land, it might tend to confound the jury, by indncing them to believe that an actual knowledge of the law of the land was essential hi order to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1854 - 784 pages
...accurate when put generally and in the abstract, as when put with reference to the party's knowledge of right and 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... | |
 | Chandler Robbins Gilman - 1857 - 28 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Huntington, James T. Roberts - Insanity - 1857 - 502 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1860 - 1072 pages
...accurate, when put generally and in the abstract, as when put with reference to the party's knowledge of right and wrong in 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... | |
 | India, Sir Walter Morgan, Arthur George Macpherson - Criminal law - 1861 - 544 pages
...accurate when put generally, and in the abstract, as. when put with reference to the party's knowledge of right and wrong, in respect to the very act with which he is charged." Whether the want of capacity is temporary or permanent, natural or supervening, whether it arises from... | |
 | Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of New York - Homeopathy - 1868 - 818 pages
...when put generally and in the abstract, as when put to the party's knowledge of right and wrong, with respect to the very act with which he is charged....solely and exclusively with reference to the law of the laud, it might tend to confound the jury, by inducing them to believe that an actual knowledge of the... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 510 pages
...and stated the more accurate rule to be whether he was incapable of knowing the difference between right and wrong " in respect to the very act with which he was charged." In response to the question as to whether a person would be excused for an act committed... | |
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... 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, as we conceive, so accurate when put generally and in the abstract, as... 
