...society ; but you also know him to be perfectly sincere. You might therefore be justified in pronouncing that he did not know the difference between right and wrong, and was of unsound mind ; but this man, like the last, is not insensible to the fear of punishment, and...

...no one better deserves the reader's indulgence than Carlyle, for, as Sir Henry Taylor assures us, " An unlimited freedom of speech is permitted to his...shafts of his came out of the blackness of darkness." To all which, apparently, Carlyle listened with imperturbable good humour. It must be remembered that...

...the opinion, before the Court of Criminal Appeal, that he was insane at the time of the murders, and that he did not know the difference between right and wrong, and Perry's prison records (he was an old offender) embodied evidence of delusions and epileptic fits while...

...M'Naghten rules for criminal insanity, which presumed a defendant to be sane unless he could establish that he did not know the difference between right and wrong, and substituted a test whereby the jury considered all the available evidence with a view of determining,...

...agreed with the trial judge that the child was competent. The Court of Appeal wrote: Here the child said that he did not know the difference between right and wrong, and it has been held and repeated in this jurisdiction that the child should have "a just appreciation...