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((1843), 10 Cl. & Fin. 200). The opinion of the Judges as to the effect of insanity on criminal responsibility was given to the House of Lords as follows :
(1) A person under the influence of insane delusion who does an act with a view of redressing or revenging some supposed grievance or injury, or producing some supposed public benefit, is nevertheless punishable according to the nature of the crime committed, if he knew at the time of committing such crime that he was acting contrary to law
(2) To establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong
(3) If a person under an insane delusion as to existing facts commits an offence in consequence thereof, he must be considered in the same situation as to responsibility as if the facts, with respect to which the delusion exists, were real

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