...legally be convicted of that offense. A person is not mentally responsible for an offense unless he wTas at the time so far free from mental defect, disease,...derangement as to be able concerning the particular acts charged both to distinguish right from wrong 'and to adhere to the right. A reasonable doubt may...

...Standard of mental responsïbilty under military law. "A person is not mentally responsible for ah offense unless he was at the time so far free from...derangement as to be able concerning the particular acts charged both to distinguish right from wrong and to adhere to the right." (5th subparagraph of...

...criminal sense is whether or not the accused was, at the time of the commission of the alleged offenses, so far free from mental defect, disease or derangement as to be able to distinguish right from wrong, to adhere to the right and possess sufficient mental capacity to understand...

...may actually render the accused irresponsible in the same sense as the psychotic, that is, "unable concerning the particular act charged both to distinguish right from wrong and to adhere to the right". In practice, such extreme grades of mental deficiency seldom are encountered in military medicolegal...

...the test of Headnote 1 mental responsibility in a criminal sense is whether or not (a) the accused was, at the time, so far free from mental defect,...distinguish right from wrong and to adhere to the right, and (b) he possesses sufficient mental capacity to understand the nature of the proceedings against...

...'Paragraph 78o Manual for Courts-Martial (1928 ed.) provides: "A person is not mentally responsible for an offense unless he was at the time so far free...derangement as to be able concerning the particular acts charged both to distinguish right from wrong and to adhere to the right." 2 Paragraph 63 of the...

...'Paragraph 78a Manual for Courts-Martial (1928 ed.) provides: "A person is not mentally responsible for an offense unless he was at the time so far free...derangement as to be able concerning the particular acts charged both to distinguish right from wrong and to adhere to the right." 2 Paragraph 63 of the...

...charged, the accused cannot legally be convicted of that offense. A person is not mentally responsible for an offense unless he was at the time so far free...derangement as to be able concerning the particular acts charged both to distinguish right from wrong and to adhere to the right." 8PJOB 1948/18481, 30...

...board (Colonel Brothers and Major Rothe) was, that at the time of the alleged offense, the accused was so far free from mental defect, disease or derangement...to be able, concerning the particular act charged, to distinguish right from wrong and concerning the particular act charged to be able to adhere to the...

...psychiatric testimony of experts who disagree as to whether the accused was at the time of the offense so far free from mental defect, disease, or derangement...as to be able concerning the particular act charged to distinguish between right and wrong and adhere to the right, has the freedom of choice to adopt...