Georgia § 16-3-3 - Delusional compulsion.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 16-3-3 — Delusional compulsion., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 16-3-3. Delusional compulsion.
A person shall not be found guilty of a crime when, at the time of the act, omission, or negligence constituting the crime, the person, because of mental disease, injury, or congenital deficiency, acted as he did because of a delusional compulsion as to such act which overmastered his will to resist committing the crime. (Code 1933, § 26-703, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.) Cross references. - Mental capacity as it relates to competency to stand trial and as it relates to culpability for criminal acts, §§ 17-7-129 , 17-7-130 , 17-7-131 . Law reviews. - For article discussing the theory of insanity in criminal law, see 15 Mercer L. Rev. 399 (1964). For annual survey on criminal law, see 65 Mercer L. Rev. 79 (2013). For article, "An Empirical Assessment of Georgia's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Standard to Determine Intellectual Disability in Capital Cases," see 33 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 553 (2017). For note comparing the M'Naghten Rule and the irresistible impulse test for legal tests of insanity, see 14 Mercer L. Rev. 418 (1963). For comment, "Saving the Deific Decree Exception to the Insanity Defense in Illinois: How a Broad Interpretation of 'Religious Command' May Cure Establishment Clause Concerns," see 46 J. Marshall L. Rev. 56 (2013).
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Section 16-3-3 ("Delusional compulsion.") is part of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the codified statutory law of Georgia. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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