... 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, as we conceive, so accurate when put generally,... A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Naval Courts-martial - Page 128by William Hickman - 1851 - 319 lehteFull view - About this book
| 1844 - 500 lehte
...not, as we conceive, so 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 lie is charged. If the question were to te put as to the knowledge of the accused solely and exclusively... | |
| Sir Matthew Hale - 1847 - 774 lehte
...not, as we conceive, so accurate when -put generally and in the abstract, as when put with reference to the party's knowledge of right and wrong in respect...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 - 1848 - 510 lehte
...jury, is not deemed so 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." (2 Greenl. Ev. § 373.) This is the rule laid down by all the English Judges but one, in the late case... | |
| Edward William Cox - 1851 - 552 lehte
...know it, that be did not know he was doing what was wrong. The mode of putting the latter part of this question to the jury on these occasions has generally...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... | |
| Edward William Cox - 1851 - 552 lehte
...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 - 1854 - 784 lehte
...Jury, is not deemed so 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 lehte
...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... | |
| Charles Benjamin Huntington, James T. Roberts - 1857 - 502 lehte
...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... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1860 - 1072 lehte
...jury, is not deemed so 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 - 1861 - 544 lehte
...not as we conceive so 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... | |
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