 | Alabama. Supreme Court, John Wesley Shepherd - Alabama - 1864 - 806 pages
...a scienter, which it is not necessary for us to consider ; such, for instance, as that every person is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his acts. — 1 Bishop on Criminal Law, 248. From the proposition, that the criminality of supplying poisonous... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1865 - 804 pages
...principle laid down in the last two sections ; partly of the doctrine, that, as a question of proof, a man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own voluntary act.11 If, therefore, one kindles a fire in a stack, situated so that it is likely to... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 532 pages
...circumstances surrounding the commission of the act. I believe it is a rule, both in law and morale, that every man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own act. A good motivo never accompanies a bad act. nor a bad one a good act. Mr. Buchanan, in the... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 622 pages
...instructions given to the- jury in this case, at the request of the prosecution, we find the following : " A man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own acts ; so the intent to murder is conclusively inferred from the use of a deadly weapon." Murder... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1870 - 674 pages
...knowledge of consequences, and with a determination or willingness to produce such consequences. Every man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own voluntary acts. 1 Greenl. End. § 18. Lord Ellenborough, 3 M. & S. 11, 15. Burr. Circ. Evid. 38,... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1874 - 746 pages
...Event-ив varios res nova semper habet. A now matter always produces various events. Coke, Litt. 379. Every man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his oirn voluntary acts. 1 Orcen. Evid. ? 18; 9 East, 277; 9 Barnew. A C. 643; 3 Maule À S. 11, 17. Eje... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1876 - 772 pages
...plaintiffs in error. vs. SIMEON E. CRITTENDEN, defendant in error. I. While it is true, in general, that a man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own acts, it is not true that he is presumed to intend all their necessary consequences. Consequences... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 1090 pages
...instructions given to the jury in this case, ,it the request of the prosecution, we find the following: "A man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own acts; so the intent to murder is conclusively inferred from the use of a deadly weapon." Mailer... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1108 pages
...intended to do so before that time, the evidence of that intention in this record is imperceptible. A man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his acts. The consequences of the acts of Grumbles here were that, although he delivere'! to his wife the dormant... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 2026 pages
...Justice Brown said : "This is nothing more than a statement of the familiar proposition that every man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own act." In Affnew v. US, 165 US 36, 50, 53, 17 Sup. Ct. 235, 241, 242 (41 L. Ed. 624), Mr. Chief... | |
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A man is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his acts. 
