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2. C
Of Exemptions From Punishment
7.
Exemptions Total or partial are as follows

Exemptions how many what— and
1. Physical compulsion or absolute involuntariness.

2. Insanity.

3. Infancy.

4. Infirmity of body.

Exemption I. Physical Compulsion.

Physical Compulsion is where the Act is altogether involuntary (A)
on the part of the person by some motion of whose body
damage is eventually produced. In such case such person is exempt
not only from all punishment but also from all obligation
to make amends.

Exposition.

[(A)Involuntary] 1.It matters not whether his will was wanting
with respect to all motion whatsoever; as if, while you were standing
still, a man were to come and shove you against a third person:
or only with respect to motion in that particular direction by
means of which the direction was occasioned; as if you were aiming
a gun at a bird, and, at the instant of your firing, a man
were to come and give the gun a push, in such manner as to
cause you to shoot another man.

2. It matters not whether the will acted not at all upon the occasion;
as if, while you was standing still with your hand by
yours

Identifier: | JB/098/013/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 98.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-7, 1-3, 2-3
Box	098	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	013	Info in main headings field	of exemptions from punishment
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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