 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 sider
...prisoner, in committing the homicide, acted from an irresistible and uncontrollable impulse. If so, then the act was not the act of a voluntary agent,...involuntary act of the body, without the concurrence of a mind directing it." Now, without stopping to comment on the inaccuracy of calling the act of an insane... | |
 | Abner Rogers (Jr.), George Tyler Bigelow, George Bemis - 1844 - 312 sider
...prisoner in committing the homicide acted from an irresistible and uncontrollable impulse ; if so, then the act was not the act of a voluntary agent,...involuntary act of the body without the concurrence of a mind directing it. The character of the mental disease relied upon to excuse the accused in this... | |
 | Lundsford Pitts Yandell, Theodore S. Bell - 1845 - 564 sider
...prisoner in committing the homicide, acted from an irresistible and uncontrollable impulse; if so, then the act was not the act of a voluntary agent,...involuntary act of the body, without the concurrence of a mind directing it. The character of the mental disease relied upon to excuse the accused in this... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - 1847 - 784 sider
...the prisoner in committing the homicide, acted from an irresistible and uncontrolable impulse; if so, all a net of the body without the concurrence of a mind directing it." '2 Greenl. on Ktid. $ 372. The question... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - 1847 - 774 sider
...prisoner in committing the homicide, acted from an irresistible and uncontrolabte impulse ; if so, then the act was not the act of a voluntary agent, but the involuntary net of the body without the concurrence of a mind directing it." "2 Greenl. on Enid. § 372. The question... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 566 sider
...prisoner, in committing the homicide, acted from an irresistible and uncontrollable impulse. If so, then the act was not the act of a voluntary agent,...involuntary act of the body, without the concurrence of a mind directing it." Now, without stopping to comment on the inaccuracy of calling the act of an insane... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1854 - 784 sider
...prisoner, in committing the homicide, acted from an irresistible and uncontrollable impulse ; if so, then the act was not the act of a voluntary agent,...involuntary act of the body without the concurrence of a mind directing it." 1 1 See The Trial of Abner Rogers, p. 276, 377, per Shaw, CJ The whole of this... | |
 | 1862 - 802 sider
...the prisoner, in committing the imicide, acted from an irresistible and uncontrollable impulse ; if , then the act was not the act of a voluntary agent, but the voluntary act of the body, without the concurrence of a mind rtcting it." It is submitted that the... | |
 | 1888 - 564 sider
...doctrine in the opinion itself. The uncontrollable impulse which the learned chief justice declares will excuse the act is said to be that which ' overwhelms...object, however sane as to other matters. The latter clanse of the instruction therefore should have been restricted by words conveying the idea that the... | |
 | 1870 - 546 sider
...prisoner in committing the homicide acted from an irresistible and uncontrollable impulse ; if so, then the act was not the act of a voluntary agent,...involuntary act of the body without the concurrence of a mind directing it." This rule was quoted in 2 Greenleaf 's Evidence, § 372, as the settled law.... | |
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... was in a diseased and unsound state, the question will be, whether the disease existed to so high a degree, that for the time being, it overwhelmed the, reason^ conscience and judgment, and whether the prisoner in committing the homicide acted from... 
