 | William Augustus Guy, David Ferrier - 1875 - 744 oldal
...measure of responsihdity, " that snch a person as, lahouring under melancholy distempers, hath yet as great understanding as ordinarily a child of fourteen years hath, is snch a person as can he guilty of treason and felony," we find Mr. Justice Tracy, in the trial of Arnold,... | |
 | 1877 - 1004 oldal
..."The best measure I can think of is this : such a person as laboring under melancholy distempers, hath yet ordinarily as great understanding as ordinarily...such a person as may be guilty of treason or felony." As if, says Dr. Ray, the only difference between sanity and insanity were precisely that which is made... | |
 | 1877 - 980 oldal
..."The best measure I can think of is this: such a person as laboring under melancholy distempers, hath yet ordinarily as great understanding as ordinarily...such a person as may be guilty of treason or felony." As if, says Dr. Ray, the only difference between sanity and insanity were precisely that which is made... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves - 1877 - 898 oldal
...best measure I can think of is this : such a person as, laboring under melancholy distempers, hath o ;, ̍t kNu]M 7 AS 2 e % /sr % X &^ffj[k a5 R Q `{Mq \ @ MX y tE s = M / ?7xh ; ){ ̌c x 5 felony."(rf) In the case of Lord Ferrers, who was tried before the House of Lords for murder, it was... | |
 | 1882 - 954 oldal
...of Lord Hale, who laid down this rule: "Such a person as, laboring under melancholy distempers, hath yet ordinarily as great understanding as ordinarily...person as may be guilty of treason or felony." In 1725, in the case of Edward Arnold, indicted for shooting at Lord Onslow, Mr. Justice Tracy said, in... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1883 - 522 oldal
...labouring under melancholy dis" tempers hath yet ordinarily as great understanding as ordi" narily a child of fourteen years hath, is such a person as " may be guilty of treason or felony." Surely no two states of mind can be more unlike than that of a healthy boy of fourteen, and that of... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1884 - 1012 oldal
...best measure that I can think of is this, such a person as laboring under melancholy distempers hath yet ordinarily as great understanding as ordinarily...of fourteen years hath, is such a person as may be guilt!/ of treason or felony." This test, as we shall see, comes very near the one now generally adopted... | |
 | 1886 - 848 oldal
...best measure that I can think of is this: such a person as laboring under melancholy distempers, hath yet ordinarily as great understanding as ordinarily...such a person as may be guilty of treason or felony :" I Hale's PC 30. This test can hardly be regarded as very definite or correct. Yet such has been... | |
 | 1886 - 406 oldal
...under melancholy Distempers, has yet ordinarily as great Understanding as ordinarily a Child of 14 years hath, is such a Person as may be guilty of Treason or Felony." The Sollicitor gained great applause, & indeed most deservedly. This murder was proved to be as premeditated... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1892 - 922 oldal
...measure that I can think of is this, — such a person as, laboring under melancholy distempers, hath yet ordinarily as great understanding as ordinarily...such a person as may be guilty of treason or felony." l But if we admit the abstract accuracy of this test, we still derive from it little aid; because of... | |
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I can think of is this; such a person as labouring under melancholy distempers hath yet ordinarily as great understanding, as ordinarily a child of fourteen years hath, is such a person as may be guilty of treason or felony. 
