charges, so that the prisoner, if found guilty, will escape hanging
The plea of insanity is brought forward, as a rule, only in capital
charges, so that the prisoner, if found guilty, will escape hanging. If
proved “guilty, but insane,” the person is sentenced to be kept in a
criminal lunatic asylum “during His Majesty”s pleasure.”

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