Assertion: insanity's act | /r/HasProperty | contrary
Facets:
value: to law
type: OTHER
value: at the same time
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Their practice is to regard a defendant in a criminal case as responsible and punishable if at the time of the crime he knew the difference between right and wrong, or at least knew that his act was contrary to the civil or moral law.
text: According to the medical point of view, it is probably correct to say that every person, when committing a criminal act, is insane and therefore needs an exemption from criminal responsibility; while it is a legal point of view, a person must be held to be the same as long as he is able to distinguish between right and wrong; as long as he knows that the act carried out is contrary to the law.
text: and if that act was at the same time contrary to the law of the land, he is punishable.
text: from the legal point of view, so long as he is able to distinguish between right and wrong and to know that the act done by him is wrong or contrary to law, a man a must be held to be sane.