 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...  Proceedings ... - Page 290by New York State Bar Association - 1914Full view - About this book
 | New York (State) - Criminal law - 1908 - 886 pages
...Iowa, 88; Cunningham т. State, 56 Miss. 269. { 21. Irresponsibility, etc., of Idiot, lunatic, etc. 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... | |
 | Rudolph August Witthaus - 1909 - 1074 pages
...that: "An act done by & person who is an idiot, lunatic, or insane, is not a crime." And in section 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... | |
 | Heinrich Oppenheimer - Criminal liability - 1909 - 292 pages
...1882). An act done by a person who is an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane is not a crime. Art. 21. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was labouring under such a defect of reason as either (a) Not to know the nature and quality of the act... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1910 - 1032 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... | |
 | American Psychiatric Association - Psychiatry - 1910 - 550 pages
...insanity in substantially the same language as that used by the judges in the McNaughten case, namely : A person is not excused from criminal liability as...idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane person, except upon the proof that, as the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1092 pages
...crime. An act done by a person who is an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane is not a crime, but one is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane person or of unsound mind, except at the time of the commission of the alleged criminal act he was laboring... | |
 | New York (State) - Criminal law - 1911 - 1204 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. Derivation: Penal Code, g§ 20, 21, as amended L. 1882, cli. 384, § 1. Dewitt v. Bailey (1858), 17... | |
 | New York (State) - 1911 - 1222 pages
...imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to \tc incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as...act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason aa: 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). Prison Department - Prisons - 1912 - 402 pages
...a medical point of view, but whether under the provisions of Section 1120 of the Penal Code "he is laboring under such a defect of reason as (1) not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing and (2) not to know that the act was wrong." No responsibility should be attached... | |
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