 | 1894 - 260 Seiten
...defense, the judges, answering the questions together, " conveniently," as they say, replied, that the jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sound of mind and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for... | |
 | Arthur Percival Will - 1896 - 580 Seiten
...House of Lords in consequence of a discussion which arose out of the famous M'Ncntyhton case,7 that "the jury ought to be told in all cases that every...the contrary be proved to their satisfaction." And it is a widely adopted rule in this country that the defendant must prove to the reasonable satisfaction... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1896 - 762 Seiten
...such cases was taken, and on the point here involved the answer was that " the jurors ought to be told that every man is presumed to be sane and to possess...until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction." Argument for Defendants in Error. The law so declared has been acquiesced in in England. In this country... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1896 - 768 Seiten
...such cases was taken, and on the point here involved the answer was that "the jurors ought to be told that every man is presumed to be sane and to possess...until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction." Argument for Defendants In Error. The law so declared has been acquiesced in in England. In this country... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Hun - 1882 - 804 Seiten
...Honse of Lords, the highest English judicial authority. And it was then held that " every man is to be presumed to be sane and to possess a sufficient degree...responsible for his crimes until the contrary be proved." And " to establish a defense on the ground of insanity it must be clearly proved that at the time of... | |
 | Rudolph August Witthaus - 1896 - 858 Seiten
...to submit our opinion to be that the jurors ought to be told, in all cases, that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to ho responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction ; and that, to establish... | |
 | 1897 - 1068 Seiten
...subject requested on behalf of the accused. On this defense of Insanity the Instruction In part was: "Every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess...sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crime, until the contrary be satisfactorily proved. When Insanity Is set up as a defense for crime,... | |
 | New York (State), William Henry Silvernail - 1897 - 1152 Seiten
...where the defense is insanity, that jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is presume' 1 to be sane and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crime, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction, and that, to establish a defense on the... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1898 - 992 Seiten
...subject requested on behalf of the accused. On this defence of insanity the instruction in part was: " Every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a...sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crime, until the cojitrary be satisfactorily proved. When insanity is set up as a defence for crime,... | |
 | India - 1898 - 1152 Seiten
...questions appear to us to be more conveniently answered together we submit our opinion to be, that the jury ought to be told in all cases, that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes,... | |
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In what terms ought the question to be left to the jury, as to the prisoner's state of mind at the time when the act was committed?" ANSWERS. — " The jury ought to be told, in all cases, that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient... 
