 On the assumption that he labors under a partial delusion only, and is not in other respects insane, he must be considered in the same situation as to responsibility as if the facts, with respect to which the delusion exists, were real.  Hand-book of Criminal Law - Page 54by William Lawrence Clark - 1894 - 450 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 392 pages
...or as not to know that what he was doing was wrong. That a party laboring under a partial delusion must be considered . in the same situation, as to...respect to which the delusion exists, were real. That where an accused person is supposed to be insane, a medical man who has been present in court and heard... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...And, 2dly, where such delusion is as to existing facts, and the individual labouring under it is not, in other respects, insane, he must be considered in...same situation as to responsibility as if the facts with respect to which the delusion existed were real. For instance, 1 8 Scott, NR 601 ; Reg. v. Higginson,... | |
 | Isaac Ray - Insanity - 1853 - 554 pages
...the judges reply, that, on the assumption " that he labors under partial delusion only, and is not in other respects insane, he must be considered in...same situation as to responsibility, as if the facts, with respect to which the delusion exists, were real. For example, if under the influence of delusion,... | |
 | Medicine - 1858 - 652 pages
...delusion only, and not in other respects insane, commits an offence in consequence thereof, he is to be considered in the same situation, as to responsibility,...in respect to which the delusion exists were real. From these rules of law arises the consideration of partial delusions in their legal relations to crime... | |
 | 1858 - 754 pages
...delusion only, and not in other respects insane, commits an offence in consequence thereof, he is to be considered in the same situation as to responsibility...in respect to which the delusion exists were real. These rules of law in relation to offences committed in an alleged condition of insanity, suggest for... | |
 | Theodore Thring - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1861 - 416 pages
...Where the person accused labours under such partial delusion only (as in the last case), but is not in other respects insane, he must be considered in...same situation as to responsibility, as if the facts, with respect to which the delusion exists, were real. For example, if under the influence of his delusion,... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1865 - 766 pages
...or as not to know that what he was doing was wrong. That a party labouring under a partial delusion must be considered in the same situation, as to responsibility,...respect to which the delusion exists, were real."* Such is the exposition of responsibility in relation to insanity laid down by the judges ; upon this... | |
 | Robert Alexander Fisher - Criminal law - 1871 - 722 pages
...act he was doing, or that what he was doing was wrong. Ib. A party labouring under a partial delusion must be considered in the same situation, as to responsibility,...respect ,to which the delusion exists, were real. Ib. Where an accused person is supposed to be insane, a medical man who has been present in court and... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1871 - 372 pages
...part of this work, viz. that if an accused person labour under " a partial delusion only, and is not in other respects insane, he must be considered in...same situation as to responsibility as if the facts with respect to which the delusion exists were real."* So far, then, there is no difficulty or uncertainty,... | |
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