Thring's Criminal Law of the Navy: With an Introductory Chapter on the Early State and Discipline of the Navy, the Rules of Evidence, and an Appendix Comprising the Naval Discipline Act and Practical Forms

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Stevens and Sons, 1877 - 529 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 225 - ... at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Σελίδα 375 - Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the Judge to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by witnesses; and such writings, and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the Court and jury as evidence of the genuineness, or otherwise, of the writing in dispute.
Σελίδα 361 - A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but...
Σελίδα 333 - The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted, is that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth...
Σελίδα 111 - ... disclose or discover the vote or opinion of any particular member of the court-martial, unless required to give evidence thereof, as a witness, by a court of justice, in a due course of law. So help you God.
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Σελίδα 226 - On the assumption that he labors under partial delusion only, and is not in other respects insane, he must be considered in the same situation, as to responsibility, as if the facts with respect to which the delusion exists were real.
Σελίδα 367 - ... purporting to be signed by the clerk of the court or other officer having the custody of the records of the court where the offender was...
Σελίδα 374 - Acts made or to be hereafter made, without any proof of the seal or stamp where a seal or stamp is necessary, or of the signature or of the official character of the person appearing to have signed the same, and without any further proof thereof in every case in which the original record could have been received in evidence.
Σελίδα 225 - ... the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of...

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