 | Edward Livingston - 1822 - 164 pàgines
...imprisonment for life ; then one month of such imprisonment, in every year, shall be in solitude. ART. 30. No act done by a person in a state of INSANITY can be punished as an offence. No person becoming INSANE after he has committed an offence, can be tried for the same. No person becoming... | |
 | Edward Livingston - 1824 - 170 pàgines
...imprisonment for life; then one month of such imprisonment, in every year, shall be in solitude. ART. 30. No act done by a person in a state of INSANITY can be punished as an offence. No person becoming INSANE after he has committed an offence, can be tried for the same. No person becoming... | |
 | 1843 - 516 pàgines
...responsibility. In Livingston's code (New Orleans, 1824, chap. I11, p. 15,) we have the following words : — " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." The revised statutes of the state of New York, (Albany, 1836, vol. ii, p. 582,) contain the same words.... | |
 | New York (State) - 1829 - 882 pàgines
...the courts deriving their jurisdiction under the laws and constitution of the United States.59 § 2. No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punish- insane p«r ed as an offence ; and no insane person can be tried, sentenced to any (89) i*wi... | |
 | New York (State) - 1829 - 878 pàgines
...the courts deriving their jurisdiction under the laws and constitution of the United States.60 S 2. No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punish- in«!mopw-., i . i • ii aoiw. ed as an offence ; and no insane person can be tried, sentenced... | |
 | Edward Livingston - 1833 - 766 pàgines
...imprisonment for life, then one month of such imprisonment, in every year, shall be in solitude. Art. 35. No act done by a person in a state of INSANITY, can be punished as an offence. No person becoming INSANE after he has committed an offence, can be tried for the same. No person becoming... | |
 | Edward Livingston - 1833 - 768 pàgines
...imprisonment for life, then one month of such imprisonment, in every year, shall be in solitude. Art. 35. No act done by a person in a state of INSANITY, can be punished as an offence. No person becoming INSANE after he has committed an offence, can be tried for the same. No person becoming... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1841 - 834 pàgines
...it.(rf) This is the doctrine of the common law. Besides, it is now expressly provided by statute, that " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence."(e) One great difficulty which a magistrate has to encounter is, to distinguish between such... | |
 | William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1848 - 516 pàgines
...on this subject intended to abrogate or qualify the Common Law rule. The words of the statute are, " No act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offence." (2 RS 697 § 2.) The clause is very comprehensive in its terms, and at first blush might seem to exempt... | |
 | William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1848 - 510 pàgines
...preliminary to any further proceedings upon the indictment. be capable of answering to a criminal charge. No insane person can be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for any crime or offence whilst he continues in that state. [2 RS, 582.] To try that question in the case of the prisoner, you... | |
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Our statutes may declare, as they do, that " no act done by a person in a state of insanity can be punished as an offense, and no insane person can be tried, sentenced to any punishment, or punished for any crime or offense while he continues in that... 
