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Side 3 - Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology for November, 1918.
Side 175 - No act committed by a person while in a state of voluntary intoxication is less criminal by reason of his having been in such condition. But whenever the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive, or intent is a necessary element to constitute any particular species or degree of crime, the jury may take into consideration the fact that the accused was intoxicated...
Side 184 - Do unto others as you would that they should do to you," comprises quite enough to begin with.
Side 174 - 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 quality of the act he was doing; or, • 2. Not to know that the act was wrong.
Side 51 - In investigating her history her descendants were found to have numbered 834, of whom 709 have been traced from their youth. Of these, 7 were convicted of murder, 76 of other crimes, 142 were professional beggars, 64 lived on charity and 181 women of the family led disreputable lives.
Side 167 - This is the mildest degree of mental defect, and the feeble-minded person is ' ' one who is capable of earning a living under favorable circumstances, but is incapable, from mental defect existing from birth, or from an early age, (a) of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows; or (b) of managing himself and his affairs with ordinary prudence.
Side 170 - So that upon the whole the only adequate definition of felony seems to be that which is before laid down; viz. an offence which occasions a total forfeiture of either lands, or goods, or both, at the common law; and to which capital or other punishment may be superadded, according to the degree of guilt.
Side 167 - And the definition of amentia is "a state of mental defect from birth, or from an early age, due to incomplete cerebral development, in consequence of which the person affected is unable to perform his duties as a member of society in the position of life to which he is born.
Side 110 - They cause unutterable sorrow at home, and are a menace and a danger to the community. Feebleminded women are almost invariably immoral and if at large usually become carriers of venereal disease or give birth to children who are as defective as themselves. Every feebleminded person, especially the highgrade imbecile, is a potential criminal, needing only the proper environment and opportunity for the development and expression of his criminal tendencies.
Side 129 - The most pitiful victim of city life is not the slum child who dies, but the slum child who lives. Every time a child dies the nation loses a prospective citizen, but in every slum child the nation has a probable consumptive and a possible criminal.