sexual psychopath

sexual psychopath
One affected with a form of psychopathic personality which disposes him to .the commission of sexual offenses. A person who, by a habitual course of misconduct in sexual matters, has evidenced an utter lack of power to control his sexual impulses, and who, as a result, is likely to attack or otherwise inflict injury, loss, pain, or other evil on the objects of his uncontrolled and uncontrollable desires. State ex rel. Pearson v Probate Court, 205 Minn 545, 287 NW 297, affd 309 US 270, 84 L Ed 744, 60 S Ct 523, 126 ALR 530. A person in whom there is combined emotional instability and impulsiveness of behavior or inability to appreciate the consequences of his acts, so that he is unable to control his sexual desires and thereby dangerous to other persons. Ditrich v Brown County, 215 Minn 234, 9 NW2d 510. A person adjudicated to be a "sexual psychopath." Anno: 24 ALR2d 373, § 9.

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