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6 C Of Extenuations — Reasons

sober, the same degree of depravity is not evidenced
by his having committed the same act when
drunk. See Introd. Ch. [Proportion &c] This follows from what has been just observed.

Quest. VII

Why intoxication is not made a ground of
absolu total exemption?

Reasons

1. Because of the difficulty of ascertaining the
matter of fact. It may be difficult to ascertain
1. whether the party be were at all intoxicated. 2. whether
to such a degree intoxicated as to be either
insensible to the dangerousness of the act, or
proof against the dread of punishment. There
is no determining this from the quantity of the
intoxicating substance: because the same substance quantity
will have very different effects
on different persons and on the same person
at different times. Besides that the fact of
a man's having swallowed such or such a quantity
of such or such a substance is of such a nature
as that it might be proved by false testimony
with little danger of detection. 2.. Because

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	015	Info in main headings field	of extenuations - reasons
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
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