 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - 1909 - 764 lapas
...provided by the Penal Code (§ 21): " A person is not NY Rep.] Opinion of the Court, per CHASE, J. excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile,...lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at tlie time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as... | |
 | New York (State). Board of Charities - 1910 - 1028 lapas
...or insane is not a crime. A person can not be tried, sentenced to any punishment or punished for a crime while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility,...lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at the Vol. Ill — 11 time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of... | |
 | New York (State). Board of Charities - 1906 - 1550 lapas
...1884, People v. Rhinelander, Z id. 340. § 21. Irresponsibility, etc., of idiots, lunatics, etc. — A person is not excused from criminal liability as...lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at tbe time of committing tie alleged criminal act. he was laboring under such a defect of reason, as... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1884 - 788 lapas
...undecided and undefined. The latter part would seem to define it to apply to the accused when in a state so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense; but Section 21 is a re-statement of the rule in the McNaughten case : " Laboring under such a defect... | |
 | New York (State) - 1881 - 242 lapas
...punishment, or punished for a crime, while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility, insanity, or lunacy, so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense. § 21. A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person,... | |
 | New York (State) - 1882 - 806 lapas
...lunatic or insane is not a crime. A person cannot be tried, sentenced to anv punishment or punished for a crime while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility,...understanding the proceeding or making his defense. Section twenty-one is hereby amended so as to read as follows : § 21. A person is not excused from... | |
 | George Leib Harrison - 1884 - 1156 lapas
...cannot be Irresponsihil- ' . ' . ity of lunatic*, tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for a crime, while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility,...person is not excused from criminal liability as an imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, except ibid 5 21. •• Ji iinwf that, at the time of committing... | |
 | New York (State) - 1884 - 1000 lapas
...or insane, is not a crime. A person cannot be tried, sentenced to any punishment or punished for a crime while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility,...understanding the proceeding or making his defense. (Amended 1882.) 2 R. 8., 988, § 2; 2 RS (Edm.), 720, § 2; 4 Black. Com., 24. (a) Dissipation. —... | |
 | George Leib Harrison - 1884 - 1134 lapas
...crime. A person cannot be Irresponnitill- ' ' tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for a crime, while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility,...understanding the proceeding or making his defense. 194. A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person,... | |
 | George Leib Harrison - 1884 - 1134 lapas
...cannot be Irresponsible ' ' ' »r of lunatics, tried, -sentenced to any punishment, or punished for a crime, while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility,...as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding 194. A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person,... | |
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An act done by a person who is an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane is not a crime. A person can not be tried, sentenced to any punishment or punished for a crime while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable... 
