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Insanity - Coggle Diagram
Insanity
General
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McNaughton Rules
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“Labouring under such a defect of reason from a disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or if he did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong
It is a defect of reason, arising from a disease of the mind, so the d does not know what he is doing or does not know what he is doing it wrong
Insanity
Disease of the Mind
Kemp - attacked wife with hammer, had arteriosclerosis, defence allowed
Epilepsy - Sullivan - had seizure and kicked neighbour in the head, allowed
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Sleepwalking - Burgess - attacked girlfriend, hit her with wine bottle, allowed
Diabetes - Hennessy - did not take insulin after eating, hypoglycemic, allowed
Does not know the nature and quality of his acts in Sullivan this was said to mean that the d does not know what he was doing at the time
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Windle - ‘folie a deux’, one person has it the other gets it, suicidal wife, poisoned wife, knew was a crime, no defence
Codere - though was cutting loaf of bread but was wife's neck, no defence, knew killing was wrong
Yates - killed 5 children to stop them going to hell, US case
Defect of Reason
Absent mindedness and forgetfulness is not defect of reason, it is not simply a failure to use powers of reason
Clarke - old woman went to shop and walked out with shopping, no defence