Lanier Allison Ramer v. United States of America, Eugene Richard Church v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
*566DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge.
In these two cases we ordered hearings en banc to consider whether we should continue to follow our decision in Sauer v. United States, 1957, 9 Cir., 241 F.2d 640, cert. denied, 354 U.S. 940, 77 S.Ct. 1405, 1 L.Ed.2d 1539. There, we adhered to the so-called M’Naghten rule, as extended by the so-called irresistible impulse theory, as the test of determining whether a defendant in a criminal case can be found to have been insane when he committed the criminal act, and therefore not guilty. We adhered to Sauer in Smith v. United States, 1965, 9 Cir., 342 F.2d 725 and in…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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- Stanford v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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