Legal Opinion
Sollars v. State
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided October 18, 1957No. 3953PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
By the Court,
Merrill, J.:
This is an appeal from judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree under which, pursuant to jury verdict, the appellant has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The defense interposed was that of insanity. The appeal comes to us upon four assignments of error. The first relates to our definition of insanity as a defense in a criminal action.
This court in 1889 in the case of State v. Lewis, 20 Nev. 333, 350, 22 P. 241, 247, approved and adopted the “right-and-wrong” test patterned after the M’Naghten rules pronounced by English judges in 1843. “To…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Holt v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Durham v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1954
- Parsons v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1886
- State v. PikeSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1870
- Hempton v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1901
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3Cited by38 opinions
- State v. LucasSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1959
- Bethea v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1976
- Bean v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 1965
- Finger v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 2001
- Kuk v. StateNevada Supreme Court · 1964
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