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In Re: M'NAGHTEN'S CASE

HOUSE OF LORDS (Lord Lyndhurst, L.C., Lord Cottenham, Lord Wynford, Lord Brougham and Lord Campbell)

Reported 10 Cl. & Fin. 200; 8 Scott, N.R. 595; 4 State Tr.N.S. 847, 1 Town. St. Tr. 314; 1 Car. & Kir. 130, n.; 8 E.R. 718 | 1843-05-26

 
HOUSE OF LORDS
[1843]

M'NAGHTEN'S CASE

[HOUSE OF LORDS (Lord Lyndhurst, L.C., Lord Cottenham, Lord Wynford, Lord Brougham and Lord Campbell), May 26, June 19, 1843]

[Reported 10 Cl. & Fin. 200; 8 Scott, N.R. 595; 4 State Tr.N.S. 847, 1 Town. St. Tr. 314; 1 Car. & Kir. 130, n.; 8 E.R. 718]

Criminal Law-Insanity-Defence to charge-Presumption of sanity -Proof that prisoner did not know nature and quality of his act or that he was doing what was wrong-Medical evidence.

Where, in a criminal case, the defence is set up that at the time of his committing the offence charged the prisoner was insane, the jury should be directed that...