| Ceylon. Pārlimēntuva - Sri Lanka - 1959 - 1048 pages
...the requirements of law is so substantially impaired that he cannot justly be held responsible. (b) A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1961 - 1560 pages
...institute in section 4.01 of this Model Penalty Code proposes the following definition of insanity : 1. A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental diseases or defects, he lacks substantial capacity, either to appreciate the... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1961 - 862 pages
...responsibility. The latest proposal, in which Judge John J. Parker had a large part, would provide that A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality... | |
| Crime - 1965 - 896 pages
...relation between sanity and criminal responsibility. In 18't.'), came the M'Naghten Rules providing that a person is not responsible for criminal conduct if, at the time of such conduct, he does not know the nature and quality of his act, or if he does not know that it is wrong legally... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1963 - 284 pages
...excluding responsibility; sociopathic and psychopathic personality is not disease or defect : "(1) A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to know or appreciate... | |
| United States - 1964 - 422 pages
...American Law Institute formulation the psychopath is also held criminally responsible. In stating that a person is not responsible for criminal conduct, "if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality... | |
| James Van Benschoten Bennett - Prisons - 1964 - 424 pages
...American Law Institute formulation the psychopath is also held criminally responsible. In stating that a person is not responsible for criminal conduct, "if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality... | |
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