 | English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...invisible line which divides perfect and! partial insanity ; and adds, ' it must rest upon circumst-mces, * duly to be weighed and considered both by judge and jury, • lest on the one side tht-ie be a hind of inhumanity towards the ' defects of human nature 5 or, on the other side, too great... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Forensic orations - 1813 - 278 pages
...are felons of themselves and others, are un•' der a degree of partial insanity, when they com" mil these offences. It is very difficult to define " the...by " judge and jury, lest on the one side there be 9 " kind of inhumanity towards the defects of hu" man nature; or, on the other side, too great an ''... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 pages
...capital; for " doubtless most persons, that are felons of themselves and " others, are under a degree of partial insanity, when they " commit these offences. It is very difficult to define the in" visible line that divides perfect and partial insanity : but it " must rest upon circumstances... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Trials - 1818 - 748 pages
...capital ; for, doubtless, most persons that are felons of tlicm.-elvcs, and others, are under a degree of partial insanity when they commit these offences. It is very difficult to define the indivisible line that divides perfect and partial insanity ; but it must rest upon circumstances duly... | |
 | Anthony Highmore - Forensic psychiatry - 1822 - 224 pages
...be difficult to define the indivisible line that divides perfect and partial insanity, yet, he says, it must rest upon circumstances duly to be weighed and considered both by the judge and the jury, lest on the one side there be a kind of inhumanity towards the defect of human... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1824 - 594 pages
...offences : it is тегу difficult to define the invisible line that divides perfect and parГ* 1 31 tial insanity ; but it must rest upon *circumstances duly to be weighed and considered both by the judge and jury, lest on the one side there be a kind of inhumanity towards the defects of human... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1826 - 780 pages
...further, "Doubtless most " persons that are felons of themselves and others are under a " degree of partial insanity when they commit these offences :...circumstances duly " to be weighed and considered both by the judge and jury, lest on " the one side there be a kind of inhumanity towards the defects of " human... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal procedure - 1831 - 624 pages
...30. Doubtless, he adds, most persons that are felons of themselves, and others, are under a degree of partial insanity when they commit these offences:...to define the invisible line that divides perfect from partial insanity; but it must rest upon circumstances duly to be weighed and considered both by... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Criminal law - 1832 - 716 pages
...persons that kill themselves, are under a partial degree of insanity when they commit these offences; and it is very difficult to define the invisible line that divides perfect from partial insanity ; but it must rest upon circumstances, to be duly weighed by the Judge and jury,... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - Criminal law - 1841 - 834 pages
...Doubtless," he adds, " most persons that are felons of themselves, and others, are under a degree of partial insanity when they commit these offences....difficult to define the invisible line that divides per. (*) 1 Rusi. on Cr. 7. (d) 4 Coke Litt. 247. 1 Hale'i P. (a) Id. ib. 31. Arch. Cr. Pl. 31. (6)... | |
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is very difficult to define the invisible line that divides perfect " and partial insanity; but it must rest upon circumstances duly " to be weighed and considered both by the judge and jury, lest on " the one side there be a kind of inhumanity towards... 
