This law was so far defective, that in the only case in which it was impossible to draw from the criminal an acknowledgment of the motive upon which he had acted, it required the judge to determine concerning these motives.
Lege hori akastuna zen; izan ere, delitugileagandik bere ekintzaren motiboaren aitorpena jasotzerik ez zegoen kasu bakarrean, epaileak motibo horiez erabaki zezala eskatzen baitzuen.