Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, in the Year ..., Τόμος 31

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Edward O. Jenkins, 1861

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Σελίδα 600 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Σελίδα 248 - Express malice is that deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the life of a fellow creature, which is manifested by external circumstances capable of proof. Malice shall be implied when no considerable provocation appears, or when all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart.
Σελίδα 478 - ... in respect of one or more particular subjects or persons ; as, for instance, where at the time of the commission of the alleged crime the accused knew he was acting contrary to law, but did the act complained of with a view, under the influence of insane delusion, of redressing or revenging some supposed grievance or injury, or of producing some supposed public benefit?' In answer to which question, assuming that your lordships...
Σελίδα 251 - It is not a mere possible doubt; because everything relating to human affairs, and depending on moral evidence, is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of the jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge.
Σελίδα 478 - That before a plea of insanity should be allowed, undoubted evidence ought to be adduced that the accused was of diseased mind, and that at the time he committed the act he was not conscious of right or wrong.
Σελίδα 472 - A person shall be considered of sound mind who is neither an idiot nor lunatic, nor affected with insanity ; and who hath arrived at the age of fourteen years, or before that age, if such person know the distinction between good and evil.
Σελίδα 453 - Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being in the peace of the State, by a person of sound memory and discretion, with malice aforethought, either express or implied.
Σελίδα 489 - A presumption arises for the residuary legatee against every one except the particular legatee. The testator is supposed to give it away from the residuary legatee only for the sake of the particular legatee.
Σελίδα 476 - ... it is not every kind of frantic humor or something unaccountable in a man's actions that points him out to be such a madman as is to be exempted from punishment; it must be a man that is totally deprived of his understanding and memory, and doth not know what he is doing, no more than an infant, than a brute, or a wild beast...
Σελίδα 247 - All the presumptions of law independent of evidence are in favor of innocence ; and every person is presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty. If upon such proof there is reasonable doubt remaining, the accused Is entitled to the benefit of it by an acquittal.

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