... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of the committing of the act the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality... Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown - Seite 40 von Sir Matthew Hale - 1847 - 1396 Seiten Vollansicht -
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