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Criminal Responsibility of the Insane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Oscar Woods*
Affiliation:
Cork Asylum

Extract

Many of those now present will probably agree with me that the law of criminal responsibility, as at present laid prisoners is not the same in England, Ireland, and Scotland. The existing law is ruled by the answers of the judges to certain questions put to them by the House of Lords in reference to the case of the “Queen v. McNaghten,” tried in 1843.

Type
Part I.—The Transactions of the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, held in Dublin, 12th to 15th June, 1894
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1894 

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