The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal October 1926

But these ethical dicrimination tests and the similar test rquiring the theoretical solution of difficult moral situations are tests of intelligence not of feeling; and moral imbeciles often respond quite brilliantly to them For the most part the diagnosis of the condition must rest on the evidence of persistent and unprofitable perversity which is given by the cnnd net of the moral imb [...] 1925)."2f; THE CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL L1926 had started to cross the street with the traffic signal with him; when partly across the semaphore was turned and intersecting traffic was thus released; the defendant ran down the pedestrian in the: middle of the street on the opposite crosswalk. [...] The Court charged that if the jury found that the plaintiff was struok by the defendant's automobile while she was crossing the street ` when the semaphore indicated 'go' tO the plaintiff they may find that she had the right of way over the defendant." The effect of this (Inge was to give the plaintiff an absolute right because of the signal. [...] The Court of Appeals held that it was erroneous The plaintiff did riot have an absolute right of way; the gives north and south traffic preference over east and west tralli(:; or where the rule of the road is that the vehicle to the right has the right of way on simultaneous arrival at intersections. [...] rarity of the cases in which the opposite view is seriously urged shows that the lawyers are clear on the subject; the admirable harmony of the cases reached almost without reference to each other shows that the Courts refuse to be led astray; that even casual observation of the way in which motorist and pedestrian act at crossings apparently on the assumption that traffic signals abolish all m