Picture No | 10410989 |
Date | 1843 |
Description | Trial of Daniel McNaughten 1843 |
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Scene at the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey showing the trial of Daniel McNaughten. McNaughten (usually spelled M'Naughten) (1813 û 1865) was a Scottish woodturner who assassinated English civil servant and Private Secretary of Sir Robert Peel, Edward Drummond while suffering from paranoid delusions. Through his trial and its aftermath, he has given his name to the legal test of criminal insanity in England and other common law jurisdictions known as the M'Naghten Rules.
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Source | Engraving in The Illustrated London News, 25 February 1843, page 151 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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