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guilty verdict
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guilty but mentally ill
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Verdict
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not guilty by reason of insanity
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Fox's Act
Act, 1792], which secured to juries, upon indictments for libel, the right of pronouncing a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, and no longer bound them to find a verdict
Acquittal
Acquittal, The legal certification usually by jury verdict that an accused person is not guilty of the charged offence. [fr. acquitter, Fr.; quietus, Lat., to free, acquit, or discharged], a deliverance and setting
Lunatic
insane persons, see MACNAUGHTON'S CASE, RULES IN. A jury may return the special verdict that a prisoner is guilty of the offence charged but insane at the time he committed it [(English) Trial of Lunatics Act, 1883,
not guilty
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Murder
may, if of opinion that the person charged is not guilty of murder, manslaughter or infanticide, return a verdict of child destruction if satisfied that such offence has been committed. As to punishment for attempted murder, see … Infanticide Act, 1922, provides that a woman who wilfully causes the death of her newly-born child shall be guilty of the felony of infanticide if at the time she had not fully recovered from the effect of
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