 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 768 pages
...nothing on the facts before us from which any reasonable person can conclude that the prisoner was " incapable of knowing the nature of the act," or that he was incapable of knowing that he was doing what was wrong or contrary to law. On the contrary, all the... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - Evidence (Law) - 1871 - 914 pages
.../>. ) The question is, whether A, at the time of doing a certain act, was, by reason of unsoundness of mind, incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that he was doing what was cither wrong or contrary to law. The opinions of experts upon the question whether the symptoms exhibited... | |
 | India, Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - Evidence (Law) - 1872 - 230 pages
...(6.) The question is, whether A, at the time of doing a certain act, was, by reason of unsoundness of mind, incapable of knowing the nature of the act,...contrary to law. The opinions of experts upon the questfon whether the symptoms exhibited by A commonly show unsoundness of mind, and whether such unsoundness... | |
 | India, Fendall Currie - Criminal law - 1872 - 1084 pages
...instigates B to set fire to a dwelling-house. B, in consequence of the unsoundness of his mind, being incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that he was doing what is wrong or contrary to law, sets fire to the house in consequence of A's instigation. B has committed... | |
 | India - Criminal law - 1877 - 1088 pages
...(ft) The question is, whether A, at the time of doing a certain act, was, by reason of unsoundness of mind, incapable of knowing the nature of the act,...wrong or contrary to law. The opinions of experts on the question whether the symptoms exhibited by A commonly show unsoundness of mind, and whether... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Burden of proof - 1881 - 296 pages
...relevant.5 (b) The question is, whether A, at the time of doing a certain act, was, by reason of unsoundness of mind, incapable of knowing the nature of the act,...of experts upon the question whether the symptoms 1 I SLC 555, yth ed. (note to Carter v. Bochm) ; 28 Viet. c. 18, s. 18. * Baron de Bode1* Case, 8 QB... | |
 | India, D. E. Cranenburgh - Civil procedure - 1883 - 1108 pages
...question is, whether A, at the time of doing a certain act, was, by reason of unsoundness of iniud, incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that...commonly show unsoundness of mind, and whether such unsounduess of mind usually; Tenders persons incapable of knowing the nature of the acts which they... | |
 | Punjab (India) - 1883 - 840 pages
...at the time of doing a certain act, was, by reason of unsoundness of mind, incapable of knowing uie nature of the act, or that he was doing what was either...whether the symptoms exhibited by A commonly show uusoundness of mind, and whether such unsouudness of mind usually rendera persons incapable of knowing... | |
 | India - India - 1888 - 1246 pages
...have been an offence, and that he was at the time when the act was committed, by reason of unsoundness of mind, incapable of knowing the nature of the act or that it was wrong or contrary to law *, the Magistrate shall proceed with the case, and, if the accused... | |
 | Whitley Stokes - India - 1888 - 1250 pages
...they would attribute A's death, assuming the symptoms attending it to lave been correctly described ? the nature of the act, or that he was doing what was...wrong or contrary to law. The opinions of experts upou the question whether the symptoms exhibited by A commonly show unsounduess of mind, and whether... | |
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A, at the time of doing a certain act, was, by reason of unsoundness of mind, incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that he was doing what was either wrong or contrary to law. 
