Partial Insanity - Judgment Search Results

Fisher Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... subject of consideration by the jury italics added the existence of general mental impairment or partial insanity is a scientifically established fact there is no absolute or clear cut dichotomous division of ..... society moreover is ill protected by a rule which encourages a jury to acquit a partially insane person with an appealing case simply because page 328 u s 493 his mental defects .....

In Re: Palaniappan

Court: Chennai

Reported in: (1972)2MLJ497

..... satisfied that in view of the fact that the appellant was partially insane at the time of the occurrence the sentence of life ..... his act provided that insanity before or after the time he committed the act and insane delusions though only partial may be evidence that ..... and the courts have treated this expression as equivalent to insanity insanity is a term used to describe various degrees of mental .....

District of Columbia Vs. Armes

Court: US Supreme Court

..... some subjects evince a high degree of intelligence and wisdom on others the existence of partial insanity does not unfit individuals so affected for the transaction of business on all subjects nor ..... seen or heard in a case in the prerogative court of canterbury counsel stated that partial insanity was unknown to the law of england but the court replied that if by this .....

Davis Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... in the house of lords and much was said about insane delusions and partial insanity as giving or not giving immunity for acts which being ..... the law calls a sane man not that he may be partially insane not that he may be eccentric and not that he may ..... bespeak your most earnest attention especially upon this proposition of insanity the term insanity as used in this defense means such a perverted and .....

Ramdulare RamadhIn Sunar Vs. State

Court: Madhya Pradesh

Reported in: AIR1959MP259; 1959CriLJ844

..... subdivisions with this doctrine there flourished almost inevitably the belief in the existence of partial insanities in which one mental compartment and faculty was affected and not any other ..... often has accomplices and alwaysvicious associates the homicidal monomanies hasneither the acts of homicidal insanity are generally perhaps always preceded by some striking pecu liarities in the conduct .....

Mt. Titli Vs. Alfred Robert Jones

Court: Allahabad

Reported in: AIR1934All273; 153Ind.Cas.733

..... procures the appearance without the reality of consent even in cases of men who are partially insane the basis was either a perpetration of fraud by taking advantage of his weakness or ..... science has a long category of various degrees of abnormality which are thought to be insanity they include idiocy imbecility feeble mindedness and subjectivity to stupor exaltations delusions impulses etc indeed .....

Bolabhai Hirabhai Vs. State of Gujarat

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: (2000)3GLR242

..... delusions and was given acquittal on the ground of insanity prior to that in england english law accepted the theory of partial insanity under the concept of monomania which means that a ..... a different view points between jurists and psychiatrists nonetheless the evaluation of pre requisite of insanity or unsoundness of mind or diminishing responsibility of mind with regard to legal consequences .....

Kanhaiyalal Sewaram Vs. State

Court: Madhya Pradesh

Reported in: 1954CriLJ6

..... not care to arrive at the finding whether it was a case of general or partial insanity whether the delusions were multifarious and of the wildest and most irrational character abundantly indicating ..... overpowered by delusions though may be the offspring of mental disease and so far constituted insanity yet left the individual in all other respects rational and capable of transacting the ordinary .....

Jameel Vs. State

Court: Delhi

..... act applies to the case of a monomaniac or person afflicted with partial insanity who may be a very good witness as to the other ..... points than that on which he is insane an insane or an idiot is not a competent witness if he is ..... in some cases when onset is gradual early physical symptoms of insanity are loss of appetite constipation dyspepsia and other digestive disturbances insomnia .....

Allore Vs. Jewell

Court: US Supreme Court

..... had studied her disease and for many years had considered her partially insane and that in his opinion she was not competent in ..... any business of importance that her last sickness aggravated her insanity greatly weakened her mental faculties and still more disqualified her ..... mind wandered so near the line which divides sanity from insanity as to render any important business transaction with her of .....