 ... the 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...  Overland Monthly - Page 1681883Full view - About this book
 | 1845 - 986 pages
...kills that man, as he supposes, in self-defence, he would be exempt from punishment. If his defence was, that the deceased had inflicted a serious injury...character and fortune, and he killed him in revenge, he would be liable to punishment." This paragraph is equally applicable to the law at either end of... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - 1846 - 914 pages
...the act of attempting to take away his lifo, and he kills that -man, as he supposes, in self-defence, he would be exempt from punishment. If his delusion was that the deceased had inflicted a serious injuryto his character and fortune, and he killed him in revenge for such supposed injury, he would... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - 1847 - 784 pages
...the act of attempting to take away his life, and he kills that man, as he supposes, in self defence, P in. jury, he would be liable to punishment. In answer to the last question, we state to your Lordships,... | |
 | William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1848 - 516 pages
...the act of attempting to take away his life, and he kills that man, as he supposes in self-defence, he would be exempt from punishment. If his delusion...character and fortune, AND HE KILLED HIM IN REVENGE FOB SUCH SUPPOSED INJURY, HE WOULD BE LIAB*LE TO PUNISHMENT." matter of right." [Case reported 47 Eng.... | |
 | William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1848 - 510 pages
...the act of attempting to take away his life, and he kills that man, as he supposes in self-defence, he would be exempt from punishment If his delusion...that the deceased had inflicted a serious injury to hin character and fortune, AND HE KILLED HIM IN RHVENGE FOR SUCH SUPPOSED INJURY, HE WOULD BE LIABLE... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 pages
...and he kills that man, as he supposes, in self-defence, he would be exempt from punishment ; whereas, if his delusion was that the deceased had inflicted a serious injury upon his character and fortune, and he killed him in revenge for such supposed injury, he would be... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Huntington, James T. Roberts - 1857 - 502 pages
...act of attempting to take nway his life, and he kills that man, as he supposes, in self-defense, ne would be exempt from punishment. If his delusion was...inflicted a serious injury to his character and fortune, add he killed him in revenge for sucb lupposed injury, he would be liable to punishment. Do yon agree... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1860 - 1072 pages
...the act of attempting to take away his life, and he kills that man, as he supposes, in self defence, he would be exempt from punishment. If his delusion...character and fortune, and he killed him in revenge for «uch supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment." § 43. So far as the law thus stated goes... | |
 | Theodore Thring - 1861 - 416 pages
...the act of attempting to take away his life, and he kills that man, as he supposes, in self-defence, he would be exempt from punishment. If his delusion...character and fortune, and he killed him in revenge for the supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment." Lastly. " Where the facts are admitted, or... | |
 | 1864 - 852 pages
...as he supposes, in self-defence, he would be exempt from punishment. But if hia delusion was that A had inflicted a serious injury to his character and fortune, and he killed A in revenge for such supposed injury, then he woidd be liable to When a person is acquitted of crime... | |
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