Dutton v. State

Smith, Judge.

This appeal presents a single issue: the proper application of the delusional compulsion defense. OCGA § 16-3-3 provides: “[a] person shall not be found guilty of a crime when, at the time of the act, . . . 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.” Three elements comprise the defense: “(1) that the defendant was laboring under a delusion; (2) that the criminal act was connected with the delusion under which the defendant…