GEORGIA CODE (Last Updated: August 20, 2013) |
Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES |
Chapter 3. DEFENSES TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS |
Article 1. RESPONSIBILITY |
Section 16-3-3. Delusional compulsion
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- 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.