Definition of Plea of insanity

1. Noun. (criminal law) a plea in which the defendant claims innocence due to mental incompetence at the time.

Exact synonyms: Insanity Plea
Category relationships: Criminal Law
Generic synonyms: Plea

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plea Of Insanity

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plea of insanity (current term)
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Literary usage of Plea of insanity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"By section 9C>1 of the Penal Code it is provided that, "whenever a plea of insanity is filed, it shall be the duty of the court to cause the issue on that ..."

2. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1892)
"The plea of insanity may be raided for the smallest offence up to the highest ... Such a mode of dealing with the plea of insanity, ie of making it n ..."

3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1844)
"The Plea of Insanity in Criminal Cases. By FORBES WINSLOW, Esq., Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown. ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"However, he argued successfully in the king's bench the right of volunteers to resign without waiting for the his plea of insanity, and under the statut« 40 ..."

5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1844)
"The Plea of Insanity in Criminal Cases. By FORBES WINSLOW, Esq., Member of 1he Royal College of Surgeons, London. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown. ..."

6. Medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Edward Hartshorne (1861)
"This is a subject of considerable importance in a medico-legal view ; for should a plea of insanity be improperly admitted in any criminal case, ..."

7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"By section 9C>1 of the Penal Code it is provided that, "whenever a plea of insanity is filed, it shall be the duty of the court to cause the issue on that ..."

8. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1892)
"The plea of insanity may be raided for the smallest offence up to the highest ... Such a mode of dealing with the plea of insanity, ie of making it n ..."

9. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1844)
"The Plea of Insanity in Criminal Cases. By FORBES WINSLOW, Esq., Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown. ..."

10. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"However, he argued successfully in the king's bench the right of volunteers to resign without waiting for the his plea of insanity, and under the statut« 40 ..."

11. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1844)
"The Plea of Insanity in Criminal Cases. By FORBES WINSLOW, Esq., Member of 1he Royal College of Surgeons, London. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown. ..."

12. Medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Edward Hartshorne (1861)
"This is a subject of considerable importance in a medico-legal view ; for should a plea of insanity be improperly admitted in any criminal case, ..."

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