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The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday May 27 1901

1901

Verdict Not guilty on the ground of insanitit This verdict and the question of the nature and extent of the unsoundness of mind which would excuse the commission of a felony of this sort having been made the subject of debate in the House of Lords (The 6th 199"Oct: MIN CALM TTA WPM{ TS [VOL. [...] Can a medical titan conversant with the disease Of insanity who never saw the prisoner previously to the trial. but who was present during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses be asked his opinion as to 'the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act that he [...] If the question were to be put as to the knowledge of the accused solely and exclusively with reference to the law of the land it might tend to emit found the jury by inducing them to believe that an actual knowledge of the law of the land was essential in order to lead to a conviction ; whereas the law is aministered upön the principle that every one must be taken conclusively to know it wi [...] The question lastly proposed by your Lordships is :— " Can a medical man conversant with the disease of insanity who never saw the prisoner previously to the trial but who was present during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime or his opinienlvhether 200"Yon. [...] 158 of the Bengal Tenancy Act for determining the incidents of the tenancy of the present Appellants and inter alia prayed for determining the actual quantity of lands held by the tenants and the rents payable by them at the time of the applcation It was an admitted fact that the holding was recorded in the landlord's seristha as consisting of 40 bighas 15 cottahs of land held at an annual re
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