- criminal insanity
- A want of mental capacity and moral freedom to do or abstain from doing a particular act. State v Schafer, 156 Wash 240, 286 P 833. See insanity; right and wrong test.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
criminal insanity
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