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Unfitness to Plead in Criminal Trials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

M. Hamblin Smith
M. Hamblin Smith*
Affiliation:
H.M. Prison, Portland
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The subject of this paper is the criteria of an accused person's fitness to plead to an indictment charging him with some criminal offence. It is a consideration of the questions which are involved in the special verdict of “insane on arraignment.” We shall see, however, that in this connection the word “insane” is used in an extended sense.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 62 , Issue 259 , October 1916 , pp. 763 - 774
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1916 

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