People v. Hoin
California Supreme Court
. Appeal from a judgment of conviction and from an order denying a new trial in.the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Ferral, J.
1Opinion of the Court
McKinstry, J.:
The Court below charged the jury: “As a defense to this prosecution the defendant has interposed the plea of insanity. * * * ‘Insanity/ as used in this sense, means such a diseased and deranged condition of the mental faculties as to render the person incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong in relation to the act with which he is charged.”
The charge as given is substantially the law as laid down by Tindal, C. J., in the answers of the English Judges to the questions propounded to them by the House of Lords, after *121the acquittal of McNaughton: “The jury ought to be…
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