Question

Under the __________ rule, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong.

Answer 1

The answer is "The M'Naghten Rule".

M'Naghten Rule refers to a test connected to decide if a man blamed for a wrongdoing was normal at the time of its commission and, subsequently, criminally in charge of the bad behavior. The M'Naghten rule is used as a test for criminal madness.