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[Daniel M'Naghten] Trial of M.cNaughton.
[n.d., c.1843.]
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, edges browned.
The trial of Daniel M'Naghten (1813-65, also McNaughten) for the murder of Prime Minister Robert Peel's private secretary, Edward Drummond, at the Old Bailey in 1843. His defence was that he was suffering from paranoid delusions: the verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity led to the creation of the 'M'Naghten rules', a legal test defining the defence of insanity, in 1843.
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Engraving. Sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, edges browned.
The trial of Daniel M'Naghten (1813-65, also McNaughten) for the murder of Prime Minister Robert Peel's private secretary, Edward Drummond, at the Old Bailey in 1843. His defence was that he was suffering from paranoid delusions: the verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity led to the creation of the 'M'Naghten rules', a legal test defining the defence of insanity, in 1843.
[Ref: 62531] £95.00