McNaghten Rule

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30 documents for McNaghten Rule

- Lynch v. Overholser, 369 U.S. 705 (1962)
... construction finds further support in the rule . [Page 369 U.S. 705, 711] . that a statute shou...That decision substituted for the McNaghten rule the simple question whether the "unlawful act...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- William Oscar Timms, Jr., Appellant, v. United States of America, Appellee., 403 F.2d 879 (5th Cir. 1968)
... the right and wrong test, the so-called McNaghten Rule, and the irresistible impulse test.2 The seco...
- Federal Circuits
- Citation of foreign decisions in constitutional adjudication: the relevance of the democratic deficit.
... upon any constitution, law, administrative rule, executive order, directive, policy, judicial deci... A host of other precedents, such as the McNaghten Case, would be swept away from the American lexico...
- Suffolk University Law Review
- Vol. 43 Nbr. 1, December 2010

- Government of the Virgin Islands v. Ivar Fredericks, Appellant., 578 F.2d 927 (3rd Cir. 1978)
... insanity was constructed around the Durham rule enunciated in Durham v. United States,94 U.S.App.D... of the 19th, regarding a substitute for McNaghten rule in the new Virgin Islands Code, until we coul...
- Federal Circuits
- Albert Houston Carter, Appellant, v. United States of America, Appellee., 325 F.2d 697 (5th Cir. 1963)
... court might agree within the range of the rule in this circuit, Howard v. United States, 5 Cir., ...This rule has its modern origin in McNaghten's Rule, 1843, 10 Cl. and F. 200, 210; 8 Eng.Rep. 7...
- Federal Circuits
- State ex rel. Consumer News Serv., Inc. v. Worthington City Bd. of Edn., 97 Ohio St.3d 58 (2002)
Public records — Mandamus sought to compel Worthington City Board of Education to provide access to requested public records in the future without delay in accordance with R.C. 149.43(B)(1) — Writ granted — Request for attorney fees granted.

... Fenton called Board President Sue McNaghten, who had not been at the January 14 and 19 intervi... presents issues outside the general rule that mandamus will not issue to compel the general...
- Ohio Supreme Court
- Eugene C. Campbell, Appellant, v. United States of America, Appellee., 307 F.2d 597 (D.C. Cir. 1962)
... could it be called an "explanation" of the rule governing the insanity defense in the District of ... what was loosely described as the McNaghten Rule although the substance of that doctrine had b...
- Federal Circuits
- Maurice Guy Bowling, Appellant, v. United States of America, Appellee., 321 F.2d 698 (5th Cir. 1963)
...Chambers reported in effect that under McNaghten's Rule defendant could not distinguish between rig...
- Federal Circuits
- Bobby Jack Howard, Appellant, v. United States of America Appellee., 229 F.2d 602 (5th Cir. 1956)
... portions of the charge erroneously state the rule because it is made clear that the ultimate fact to... old 'right and wrong test' of the McNaghten Case, 10 Cl. & Fin. 200, 8 Eng.Rep. 718 (1843), wh...
- Federal Circuits
- John Joseph Blake, Appellant, v. United States of America, Appellee., 407 F.2d 908 (5th Cir. 1969)
...143, where the court pointed to the sound rule that the issue of insanity should be determined by... problem of definition beginning with McNaghten's Rule, 1843, 10 Cl. and F. 200, 210, 8 Eng.Rep. 7...
- Federal Circuits