Mcnaghten Rules

Mcnaghten Rules in United Kingdom

Mcnaghten Rules History

A set of guidelines for an insanity defence used in England until the 1960s. The rules only excused (from criminal responsibility) those whose insanity resulted in a lack of knowledge of right and wrong. Those lacking the capacity to control a criminal action because of their abnormal mental state were punishable.


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