 A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as: 1. Not to know the nature and...  Harvard Law Review - Page 7301917Full view - About this book
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - 1909 - 764 pages
...provided by the Penal Code (§ 21): " A person is not NY Rep.] Opinion of the Court, per CHASE, J. excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile,...lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at tlie time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as... | |
 | 1915 - 1352 pages
...imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...doing; or, 2. Not to know that the act was wrong. The law presumes sanity in all cases. Tiew York County Court, Oyer and Terminer, December, 1881, People... | |
 | New York (State). Board of Charities - 1910 - 1028 pages
...imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at the Vol. Ill — 11 time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of... | |
 | New York (State). Board of Charities - 1906 - 1550 pages
...an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at tbe time of committing tie alleged criminal act. he was laboring under such a defect of reason, as either. 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or 2. Not to know that the act... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1884 - 788 pages
...insanity or lumicy, so as to be Incapable of understanding the proceedings or making bis defense. $ 21. A person is not excused from criminal liability, as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane person, or of unsound mind, except upon proof that at the time of committing the alleged criminal act he was... | |
 | New York (State) - 1881 - 242 pages
...insanity, or lunacy, so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. § 21. A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, or of unsound mind, except upon proof that, at the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he... | |
 | 1883 - 790 pages
...that of his insanity. The New Code of the State of New York, amended in 1882, has this language : " A person is not excused from criminal liability as...act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as either 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or 2. Not to know that the act... | |
 | New York (State) - 1882 - 806 pages
...proceeding or making his defense. Section twenty-one is hereby amended so as to read as follows : § 21. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as either, 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or 2. Not to know that the act... | |
 | 1896 - 546 pages
...cases Laws Relating; to Voluntary Intoxication In New York. Section I, Penal Code, State of New York: A person is not excused from criminal liability as...act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as either not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or that the act was wrong. Our courts... | |
 | New York (State) - 1884 - 1000 pages
...uncontrollable impulse to commit crime. Id. § 21. Irresponsibility, etc., of idiots, lunatics, etc. — A person is not excused from criminal liability as...committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring undei such a defect of reason as either, 1. Not to know the nature and quality of tiie act he was doing;... | |
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