Insanity

Question 1

M’naghten rules

Answer 1

D must prove that at the time of committing the act D was suffering from a defect of reason resulting from a disease of the mind and he didn’t know the nature and quality of the act he was doing was wrong

Question 2

R v Clarke

Answer 2

D is deprived of the power of reasoning

Question 3

M’naghten

Answer 3

Paranoia was defined as disease of the mind

Question 4

R v Johnson

Answer 4

D couldn’t successfully plead insanity because he knew what he was doing was legally wrong