Suggestions for the Future Provision of Criminal Lunatics

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J. Churchill, 1854 - 174 páginas
 

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Página 12 - ... if a man in his sound memory commits a capital offence, and before arraignment for it he becomes mad, he ought not to be arraigned for it, because he is not able to plead to it with that advice and caution that he ought. And if after he has pleaded the prisoner becomes mad, he shall not be tried ; for how can he make his defence ? If after he be tried and found guilty, he loses his senses before judgment, judgment shall not be pronounced...

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