People (Attorney General) v Manning
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Court | Court of Criminal Appeal |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1955 |
| Date | 01 January 1955 |
C.C.A.
The People (Attorney General)
and
Manning
Statement made by accused to Inspector of Civic Guards in presence of a number of officers, at 2.30 a.m., after being awakened from sleep - Statement taken by way of question and answer - Admissibility of statement - Defence of insanity - No medical evidence produced -Statement by trial Judge that he had never known a case in which insanity was an issue where medical evidence was not produced -Whether trial Judge entitled to state his experience of the practice in such circumstances - Irresistible impulse.
M. was convicted of murder at the Central Criminal Court on the 17th February, 1954. The trial Judge refused to grant him a...
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10 cases
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People v Kelly (No. 2)
...C. [1943] Ir. Jur. Rep. 74. 28 The People (Attorney General) v. Murphy [1947] I.R. 236. 29 The People (Attorney General) v. Manning (1954) 89 I.L.T.R. 155. 30 The Attorney-General v. McCabe [1927] I.R. 129. 31 R. v. Middleton [1975] Q.B. 191. 32 Director of Public Prosecutions v. Ping Lin [......
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DPP v Doyle
...56 In a review of a series of cases stretching from The Queen v. Johnson 15 Ir. C.L.R. 60, to The People (Attorney General) v. Manning 89 I.L.T.R. 155, the Court of Criminal Appeal in The People (Attorney General) v. Galvin [1964] I.R. 325 examined each of these decisions so as to deduce f......
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DPP v Eadon
...the decided cases in Ireland have tended to prefer the “capacity” approach, referring in this regard to Attorney General v. Manning [1955] 89 I.L.T.R. 155, DPP v. McBride [1996] 1 I.R. 312 and DPP v. Cotter (Unreported, Court of Criminal Appeal, judgment of the 28th June, 43 The Appellant......
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DPP v Eadon
...capacity form such intent, the Irish authorities are unclear on the matter. The cases of The People (Attorney General) v. Manning [1955] 89 I.L.T.R. 155, The People (Director of Public Prosecutions) v. McBride [1996] 1 IR 312 and The People (Director of Public Prosecutions) v. Cotter (Unr......
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2 books & journal articles
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Same Problem, Same Solution? The Treatment of the Voluntarily Intoxicated Offender in England and Germany
...and again in his dissenting judgment in R v. Bernard (1988) CCC (3d) 1, at 18. 3 Intoxication was referred to in People (AG) v. Manning (1955) 89 ILTR 155, but the case is rarely cited as authority for a general treatment of the intoxicated offender. Indeed, in the most recent textbook on I......
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The Law of Insanity and Diminished Responsibility in Criminal Law versus the Meaning of Insanity within the Medical Profession: an inevitable conflict?
...[1974] IR 55 36 ibid, p 71 37 supra note 15, p 46 38 ibid, p 46 39 See O’Hanlon J in People (D.P.P.) v Patrick Ellis (1990) 2 IR 291 40 (1955) 89 ILTR 155 41 Boland, Diminished Responsibility as a Defence in Irish Law (1995) 5(2) ICLJ 173 After years of debate and another report by the Inte......
