 | Charles Wheatly - 1819 - 576 pages
...whether the understanding was misapplied, but whether there was any understanding at all. In short, the best rule for a Jury to guide themselves by in...as a plea for acquitting him of murdering himself. But this is a little wide from my subject: however, it may be of use to shew, what little heed is to... | |
 | Great Britain - 1841 - 880 pages
...whether the understanding was misapplied, but. whether there was any understanding at all. In short, the best rule for a jury to guide themselves by in...as a plea for acquitting him of murdering himself. But this is a little wide from my subject ; however, it may be of use to show what little heed is to... | |
 | Charles Wheatly - Anglican Communion - 1848 - 588 pages
...whether the understanding was misapplied, but whether there was any understanding at all. In short, the best rule for a jury to guide themselves by in...as a plea for acquitting him of murdering himself. But this is a little wide from my subject : however, it may be of use to shew, what little heed is... | |
 | 1859 - 736 pages
...whether the understanding was mitapplicd, but whether there TU any understanding at all. In short, the best, rule for a jury to guide themselves by in...another man ; if not, there is no reason why they should DC urged as a plea for acquitting him of murdering himself. But this is a little wide from my subject.... | |
 | William Fuller Alves Boys - Coroners - 1905 - 618 pages
...the coroner's jury should judge whether the signs of madness in the person who takes his own life, would avail to acquit the same person of murdering...as a plea for acquitting him of murdering himself. 1 1 Hawk. PC. c. 27. s. 4. 1 Moor. 754 : 1 Hawk. PC. c. 27. s. 6. •2 Hawk. PC. c. 27. s. 6 •HPC... | |
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... may be a moral madness, ie a misapplication of the understanding, in all self-murderers : but this sort of madness does not come under the cognizance of a Jury ; the question with them being, not whether the understanding was misapplied, but whether... 