 A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as: 1. Not to know the nature and...  Proceedings ... - Page 290by New York State Bar Association - 1914Full view - About this book
 | American Psychiatric Association - Psychiatry - 1910 - 550 pages
...insanity in substantially the same language as that used by the judges in the McNaughten case, namely : A person is not excused from criminal liability as...idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane person, except upon the proof that, as the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1092 pages
...crime. An act done by a person who is an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane is not a crime, but one is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane person or of unsound mind, except at the time of the commission of the alleged criminal act he was laboring... | |
 | New York (State) - Criminal law - 1911 - 1204 pages
...imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...doing; or, 2. Not to know that the act was wrong. Derivation: Penal Code, g§ 20, 21, as amended L. 1882, cli. 384, § 1. Dewitt v. Bailey (1858), 17... | |
 | New York (State) - 1911 - 1222 pages
...imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to \tc incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason aa: 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or, 2. Not to know that the act... | |
 | New York (State). Prison Department - Prisons - 1912 - 402 pages
...a medical point of view, but whether under the provisions of Section 1120 of the Penal Code "he is laboring under such a defect of reason as (1) not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing and (2) not to know that the act was wrong." No responsibility should be attached... | |
 | New York (State) - Criminal law - 1913 - 1240 pages
...the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiotr imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof...the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he wais laboring under such a defect of reason as: 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he... | |
 | Clarence Alexander - Arrest - 1914 - 312 pages
...imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...doing; or, 2. Not to know that the act was wrong. r. Presumption of responsibility in general as to child of seven years or more. A child of the age... | |
 | Criminal law - 1914 - 1232 pages
...or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A ]>erson is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot,...doing; or, 2. Not to know that the act was wrong. Derivation: Penal Code, §§ 20, 21, as amended L. 1882, ch. 384, J 1-. Dewitt v. Bailey (1858), 17... | |
 | American Academy of Medicine - Crime - 1914 - 200 pages
...responsibility exists. Under the New York law one accused is not excused on this ground, "excepting upon proof that at the time of committing the alleged...act he was laboring under such a defect of reason as either ( i ) not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, and (2) not to know that the... | |
 | American Academy of Medicine - 1914 - 200 pages
...responsibility exists. Under the New York law one accused is not excused on this ground, "excepting upon proof that at the time of committing the alleged...act he was laboring under such a defect of reason as either (i) not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, and (2) not to know that the... | |
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