 | William G. Eckert - 1996 - 418 páginas
...definition of insanity formulated in 1843; the M'Naughten definition states, "It must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from a disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he... | |
 | Christopher D. Webster, Margaret A. Jackson - 1997 - 488 páginas
...rules, the essence of which is as follows: A person is presumed sane unless it can be clearly proven that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality... | |
 | Susan Estrich - 2009 - 184 páginas
...emerged in answer to the questions. "To establish a defense of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing,... | |
 | Andrew E. Skodol - 1998 - 180 páginas
...the McNaughtan standard, formally adopted in England in 1843: A defendant could be exculpated if "at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was... | |
 | Paul Elliott Rock - 1998 - 386 páginas
...Robert Peel, laid down that 'to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease ot the mind, as not to know the nature and quality... | |
 | Rita James Simon - 288 páginas
...satisfaction; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality... | |
 | Rafael E. Núñez, Rafael Núñez, Walter J. Freeman - 1999 - 310 páginas
...the McNaughton Rule: ' [To] establish a defence on the grounds of insanity, it must be clearly proven that at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality... | |
 | George P. Fletcher - 2000 - 930 páginas
...the mind." In a revealing 93 The full test is stated 8 Eng. Rep. at 722: "it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality... | |
 | Lita Linzer Schwartz, Natalie K. Isser - 2000 - 218 páginas
...what he was doing at the time of a crime. The M'Naghten rule stated that "at the time of the act, the accused was laboring under such defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act 104 Endangered Children he was doing, or, if... | |
 | David Wasserman, Robert Wachbroit - 2001 - 356 páginas
...relevant is the insanity defense. The heart of the insanity defense is the M'Naghten test, which requires that "at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality... | |
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... at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing... 
