Thus, if the guilt or innocence of a prisoner relies upon on the point to be uncovered by the jury, of his possessing been or not, when he did the act, in some exact psychological situation, which psychological condition is the gist of the offense, the jury in deciding this dilemma of mental issue, could choose into thing to consider his ignorance or misinformation in a matter of regulation. It is no additional a justification or authorization of the act than is the legislation punishing larceny an authority for stealing! ↑ The authority for this outdated "thumb" custom, that "a person had the ideal to whip his spouse with a adhere no larger than his thumb," is uncovered in an early edition of Phillip's Evidence. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Archived 8 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine - Fourth Edition. Greenberg, Clint E. Bruess Oswalt, Sara B. (2016). Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality.
