 | 1844 - 500 pages
...the act of attempting to lake away his life, and he kills that man, as he supposes, in self-defence, he would be exempt from punishment. If his delusion...supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment. In answer to the last question, we statu to your Lordships, that we think the medical man, under the... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Courts, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - 1845 - 824 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...supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment. " The question lastly proposed by your lordships is : — ' Can a medical man, conversant with the... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - 1845 - 1114 pages
...kills that man, as he supposes, I^^E in self-defence, he would be exempt from punishment. CRIMINALS. If his delusion was that the deceased had inflicted...supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment. The question lastly proposed by your lordships is : — Fifth question. " Can a medical man, conversant... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - 1846 - 914 pages
...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...supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment." And to the last question : — "We think the medical man, under the circumstances supposed, cannot... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - 1847 - 774 pages
...the act of attempting to take away his life, and be kills that man, as he supposes, in self defence, he would be exempt from punishment. If his delusion...him in revenge for such supposed injury, he would be liakle to punishment. In answer to the last question, we state to your Lordships, that we think the... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1855 - 736 pages
...attempting to take away Ai» life, and he kills that man, as he supposes, in stlj -defence, he would oe exempt from punishment. If his delusion was that the...supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment." This subject was ably examined by Nisbit, J., in Poberis T. The Slate, 3 Georgia, 310, (1847,) where the... | |
 | 1850 - 866 pages
...that man, as he supposes, in self-defence, he would be exempt from punishment. If his delusion were that the deceased had inflicted a serious injury to...supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment." QUESTION V. " Can a medical man, conversant with the disease of insanity, who never saw the prisoner... | |
 | Edward Hazen Parker - 1851 - 694 pages
...that man, as he supposes, in self-defence, he would be exempt from punishment. If his delusion were that the deceased had inflicted a serious injury to...supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment." QUESTION V. — " Can a medical man, conversant with the disease of insanity, who never saw the prisoner... | |
 | William Hickman (R.N.) - 1851 - 360 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...supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment. Fifth Question. " We think the medical man, under the circumstances supposed, cannot in strictness... | |
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For example, if under the influence of his delusion he supposes another man to be in the act of attempting to take away his life, and he kills that man, as he supposes, in self-defense, he would be exempt from punishment. 
