...which I have to maintain and explain is, that if it is not it ought to be the law of England, that no act is a crime if the person who does it is at...mental power or by any disease affecting his mind, from controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of the power of control lias been produced by...

...that if it is not it ought to be the law of England, that no act is a crime if the person who docs it is at the time when it is done prevented, either...mental power or by any disease affecting his mind, from controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of the power of control has been produced by his...

...question of responsibility." And Mr. Justice Stephen has said, " It ought to be the law of England that no act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done prevented by defective mental power, or by any disease affecting his mind, from controlling his own conduct,...

...however, be convicted of rape as a principal, but he may as a principal, in the second degree. INSANITY. No act is a crime if the person who does it is at...when it is done prevented either by defective mental powers or by any disease affecting his mind from knowing the nature and quality of his act, or from...

...by law. SECTION 20. INSANITY. No act shall be an offence if the person who does it is at the time 20 when it is done prevented, either by defective mental...disease affecting his mind, (a.) from knowing the nature of his act ; or (6.) from knowing either that the act is forbidden by law or that it is morally wrong...

...have come in conflict. Thus section 20 of the Draft Code provides that— ' No act shall be an offence if the person who does it is, at the time when it...disease affecting his mind, (a) from knowing the nature of his act ; or (6) either from knowing that the act is forbidden by law or that it is morally wrong...

...materially affect medical evidence in future cases. Thus it is provided that no act shall be an offence if the person who does it is at the time when it is...mental power or by any disease affecting his mind : — (n) Krom knowing the nature of his act; (6) From knowing either that, the act is forbidden by...

...and explain ia that, if it is not, it ought to be the law of England that no act is a crime if tbe person who does it is, at the time when it is done,...mental power, or by any disease affecting his mind, from controlling his own conduct, unless the absence of the power to control has been produced by his...

...Trials, 765, per Traoey, J. 11 The act and its consequences are generally coupled together in our law. "No act is a crime if the person who does it is at the time when it is done prevented [either hy defective mental power or] by any disease affecting his mind (a) from knowing the nature and quality...

...Iteg. v. Haynes, 1 F. and F., 666), the bracketed passage in the following statement of the law:— " No act is a crime if the person who does it is, at...From knowing that the act is wrong; [or, " (c.) From controllmg his own conduct, unless the absence of the power of control has been produced by his own...