Irresistible Impulse

• added a "volitional" element to M'Naghten
  
  - "his reasoning powers were so far dethroned by his diseased mental condition as to deprive him of willpower to resist the insane impulse to perpetrate the deed, though knowing it to be wrong"
  - Smith v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1929)

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