 | India, Tarapada Banerji - 1896 - 738 pages
...and Fin. 200, the following question was proposed to the English Judges by the House of Lords : — " Can a medical man, conversant with the disease of...prisoner's mind, at the time of the commission of the alleged crime, or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act that... | |
 | Sir William Oldnall Russell, Horace Smith, Alfred Percival Perceval Keep - Criminal law - 1896 - 1132 pages
...fortune, and he killed him in revenge for such supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment.' QV ' Can a medical man, conversant with the disease of...present during the whole trial, and the examination of the witnesses, be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission... | |
 | Rudolph August Witthaus - 1896 - 858 pages
...delusion as to existing facts commits an offence in consequence thereof, is he thereby excused ? I''1) Can a medical man conversant with the disease of insanity,...the prisoner previously to the trial, but who was pres ent during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, be asked his opinion as to... | |
 | Arthur Percival Will - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1896 - 580 pages
...question was submitted to the judges, who were of opinion that a medical witness could not in strictness be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime, or whether he was conscious at the time of doing the act that he was acting contrary... | |
 | India - Criminal law - 1898 - 1152 pages
...and he killed him in revenge for such supposed injury, he would be liable to punishment. " Q, v.— Can a medical man conversant with the disease of insanity,...present during the whole trial, and the examination of witnesses, be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1900 - 888 pages
...prisoner's state of mind, the following question was proposed to the judges by the House of Lords (r) : " Can a medical man, conversant with the disease of...the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime, or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious, at the time of doing the act,... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Evidence (Law) - 1900 - 1296 pages
...P. 604 (1840). " The question lastly proposed by your Lordships is : ' Can a medical man converaant with the disease of insanity, who never saw the prisoner...the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime ? or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act... | |
 | Courtney Stanhope Kenny - Criminal law - 1901 - 574 pages
...delusion as to existing facts commits an offence in consequence thereof, is he thereby excused ? "5th. — Can a medical man, conversant with the disease of...the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime, or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act that... | |
 | California, Carter Pitkin Pomeroy - Civil law - 1901 - 668 pages
...situation as to responsibility as if the facts with respect to which the delusion exists were real. 4. A medical man conversant with the disease of insanity,...whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, cannot be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of... | |
 | 1904 - 726 pages
...witnesses were, in his judgment, symptoms of insanity. Where an accused person is supposed to be insane, a medical man conversant with the disease of insanity,...whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, may be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission ot the... | |
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Can a medical man conversant with the disease of insanity, who never saw the prisoner previously to the trial, but who was present during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's... 
