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Criminal Responsibility To Determine Insanity--The Model Penal Code Test Emerges From The Currently Existing Tests, James William Sarver Dec 1961

Criminal Responsibility To Determine Insanity--The Model Penal Code Test Emerges From The Currently Existing Tests, James William Sarver

West Virginia Law Review

It is a matter of general knowledge that insanity is a defense to a criminal act. "A man's act does not make him guilty unless his mind also is guilty." No person can be criminally responsible for a crime unless he is sane at the time the offense is committed. In this discussion, the degree of criminal responsibility requisite to determine sanity, at the time of the alleged offense, is of prime importance. There are also certain safeguards in the law protecting the insane from trial and punishment, if insanity appears prior to trial or sentencing; although these phases of …


Abstracts Of Recent Cases, James Kilgore Edmundson Jr. Dec 1961

Abstracts Of Recent Cases, James Kilgore Edmundson Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

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Abstracts Of Recent Cases, Nick George Zegrea Apr 1961

Abstracts Of Recent Cases, Nick George Zegrea

West Virginia Law Review

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Evidence--Burden Of Proof--Presumption Of Innocence, Esdel Beane Yost Apr 1961

Evidence--Burden Of Proof--Presumption Of Innocence, Esdel Beane Yost

West Virginia Law Review

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Abstracts Of Recent Cases, Robert Glenn Lilly Jr. Feb 1961

Abstracts Of Recent Cases, Robert Glenn Lilly Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

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Capital Punishment: The Moral Issue, Orvill C. Snyder Feb 1961

Capital Punishment: The Moral Issue, Orvill C. Snyder

West Virginia Law Review

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Consecutive And Concurrent Sentences--A Comment, J. Alexander Creasey Feb 1961

Consecutive And Concurrent Sentences--A Comment, J. Alexander Creasey

West Virginia Law Review

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Proof Of The Corpus Delicti By Circumstantial Evidence Where The Body Is Never Found, John George Van Meter Feb 1961

Proof Of The Corpus Delicti By Circumstantial Evidence Where The Body Is Never Found, John George Van Meter

West Virginia Law Review

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Torts--False Arrest--False Imprisonment--Shoplifting, Esdel Beane Yost Feb 1961

Torts--False Arrest--False Imprisonment--Shoplifting, Esdel Beane Yost

West Virginia Law Review

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