 | New York (State). Legislature - 1919
...insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile,...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... | |
 | Thomas Welburn Hughes - 1919 - 764 sider
...York, on the question of insanity, is in harmony with the English rule. It exempts a person only where "he was laboring under such a defect of reason as...he was doing, or (2) not to know that the act was wrong."29 § 71. Insanity a question of fact. — The existence or nonexistence of insanity in a particular... | |
 | Augustin Derby - 1923 - 825 sider
...insanity that relieves from responsibility for crime. The rule of our statute is that "a person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile,...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... | |
 | 1917
...insanity that relieves from responsibility for crime. The rule of our statute is that " a person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile,...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... | |
 | 1913
...defects to the criminal law : ' ' The New York penal law (Section 1120) provides that 'A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile,...except upon proof that, at the time of committing the allegeil criminal act, the accused was laboring under such a defect of reason as either (1) not to... | |
 | New York (State). Board of Charities - 1911
...insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile,...lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at th*> time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as:... | |
 | Clark Bell - 1903
...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...laboring under such a defect of reason, as either (i) Xot knowing the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or (2) Xot to know that the act was... | |
 | New York (State) - 1917
...insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile,...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... | |
 | New York (State) - 1920
...insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile,...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... | |
 | American Correctional Association - 1907
...person is not excused from criminal liability as insane except upon proof that at time of committing act he was laboring under such a defect of reason...quality of the act he was doing, or (2) not to know the act was wrong. §21, Parker's NY Penal Code. "A morbid propensity to commit prohibited acts existing... | |
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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... 
