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fJanuary,THE CASE OFâ PATE.We the has notto findv. Pate, whhh escaped censureThe containsdifficult, into now Pateâs atwe gave in our from the legal(1850) followingfor the publiclast number, profession inof the âLawEngland. MagazineââIt without insanity, jection expressed against seems running we are of them. opinion evidence.âAugust thenumber remarksin Eniiad,to abandonthe opposite extreme. From foolish credulity betaking ourselves to an equally unjust and case the is a signal that his instance. conviction We speak but bar, was directlyin pleas of irrational re. the and commonly palpablySON,quoting writerthe goeslaw,laid ;ALDER-on to sayâWe have the highest experience of this learned trine appears scarcely reconcilable this to us thatrespect judge, withfor the judicial but, with great the on the admitted volitiontalent and deference, principleacumen and great we think this doc. It crime, be. man he of theof responsibility. perpetratoras much as on his tween compulsion who knew would should was be forcedknowledge from within by held the instance blamelessof right and wrong. We cannot distinguish and kroni without constraining an act. The power and of to strike another a blow person, by to commit manual what compulsion,-a crime,-forbe certainlyfor his act, simplybe could not from internal his truly says,-âresist the motive power. disease,