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Some Forensic Aspects of Epilepsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. Norwood East*
Affiliation:
England and Wales

Extract

A defence of insanity is frequently raised in answer to a serious criminal charge if the facts of the case clearly indicate the guilt of the accused. From time to time in such circumstances the jury are invited to exculpate the prisoner on the ground that the act was committed during a condition of epileptic automatism.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1926 

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