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Daniel M'Naghten. Photographed by Henry Hering c 1856. Daniel M'Naghten (sometimes spelt McNaughtan or McNaughton; 1813 – 3 May 1865) was a Scottish woodturner who assassinated English civil servant Edward Drummond while suffering from paranoid delusions.
Daniel M'Naghten c. 1856. The M'Naghten rule(s) (pronounced, and sometimes spelled, McNaughton) is a legal test defining the defence of insanity that was formulated by the House of Lords in 1843. It is the established standard in UK criminal law.
Edward Drummond (30 March 1792 – 25 January 1843) was a British civil servant, and was Personal Secretary to several British prime ministers.He was fatally shot by Daniel M'Naghten, whose subsequent trial gave rise to the M'Naghten rules, the legal test of insanity used in many common law jurisdictions.
A man has been jailed after committing 18 sexual offences against two children. Danny McNaughton, 38, of Wellington Street in Grimsby, was sentenced to 14 years in prison at Grimsby Crown Court on ...
The defense has rested its case in the trial of Daniel Penny, the former Marine who held Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on the New York City subway last year, after four days of witness testimony.
Former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny arrives with his mother Gina Flaim Penny at Manhattan Criminal Court at his trial for the death of Jordan Neely, man whose death has been ruled a homicide by the ...
R Ormrod 1977 The McNaughton case and its predecessors. In DJ West and A Walk (eds.) Daniel McNaughton: his trial and the aftermath. London: Gaskell Books, 4–11; RG Thorne 2006 Erskine, Hon. Thomas in RG Thorne (ed.) The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1790–1820 volume iii, Members A-F: 710–13.
Harte-Hanks Communications Inc. v. Connaughton, 491 U.S. 657 (1989), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States supplied an additional journalistic behavior that constitutes actual malice as first discussed in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964). [1]