The Journal of Mental Science, Volumen29

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Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1884
Vol. 77- includes Yearbook of the Association, 1931-
 

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Página 605 - The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him.
Página 261 - No act is a crime if the person who does it is, at the time when it is done, prevented, either by defective mental power, or by any disease affecting his mind...
Página 262 - For example, if, under the influence of his delusion, he supposes another man to be in the act of attempting to take away his life, and he kills that man, as he supposes, in self-defence, he would be exempt from punishment.
Página 390 - There can be no crime or offense if the accused was in a state of madness at the time of the act.
Página 335 - That an humble Address be presented to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to...
Página 104 - But human creatures' lives ! Stitch, stitch, stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt. Sewing at once, with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt ! But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Página 609 - Resolved, that so much of the legal test of the mental condition of an alleged criminal lunatic as renders him a responsible agent, because he knows the difference between right and wrong, is inconsistent with the fact, well known to every member of this meeting, that the power of distinguishing between right and wrong exists very frequently in those who are undoubtedly insane, and is often associated with dangerous and uncontrollable delusions.
Página 263 - I think that any one would fall within the description in question who was deprived by disease affecting the mind of the power of passing a rational judgment on the moral character of the act which he meant to do.
Página 609 - THE JOURNAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE. Published by authority of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane.
Página 263 - every judgment delivered since the year 1843 has been founded upon an authority which deserves to be described as in many ways doubtful

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