 | Albany Institute - 1883 - 402 pages
...following answer : " The jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be...insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the... | |
 | 1844 - 500 pages
...opinion to be, that the jury ought to be told in all cases, that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be...proved to their satisfaction; and that, to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of committing the act,... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Courts, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - 1845 - 856 pages
...opinion to be, that the jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be...proved to their 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... | |
 | 1845 - 986 pages
...matter. — " Tlie Jury ought to be told in all cases, that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be...proved to their satisfaction; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of the commission of... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - 1845 - 1114 pages
...our opinion to be, that the jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be...proved to their 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... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - 1846 - 914 pages
...questions: — " That the jury ought to be told in all cases that every man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be...proved to their 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... | |
 | 1855 - 736 pages
...answered that the jury ought to be told in all cases ' that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be...proved to their satisfaction ; and that, to establish a defence on the e round of insanity it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of the committing of... | |
 | 1850 - 866 pages
...committed ! " ANSWERS.— " The jury ought to be told, in all cases, that erery man ii pretumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be...proved to their 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... | |
 | Edward Hazen Parker - 1851 - 694 pages
...committed?" ANSWERS. — " The jury ought to be told, in all cases, that eve ry man is presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be...proved to their satisfaction ; and that, to establish a defence on the jrround of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of... | |
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... to establish a defense on the ground 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 the mind, as not to know the nature and quality... 
