Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 1958
Publication Citation
33 Indiana Law Journal 212 (1958)
Abstract
On April 5, 1957 a Conference Panel discussion on Mental Disease and Criminal Responsibility was held at the Harvard Law School during the annual meeting of the First and Second Circuits of the American Law Student Association. The participants were Professor Abram J. Chayes, Harvard, who had assisted in the preparation of the Durham opinion and who presented that view; Professor Herbert Wechsler, Columbia, Chief Reporter of the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code, who presented that view; and Professor Jerome Hall, Indiana, who presented the M'Naghten view. Professor Louis L. Jaffe, Harvard, presided. Unfortunately, Professor Chayes' and Professor Wechsler's discussions were not available for publication. The following is Professor Hall's discussion, prepared from a tape recording at the Conference. Excerpts from the Durham decision and the American Law Institute's Tentative Draft are included after Professor Hall's introductory remarks and he has added some footnotes to clarify the context of his discussion..
Recommended Citation
Hall, Jerome
(1958)
"Mental Disease and Criminal Responsibility-M'Naghten Versus Durham and the American Law Institute's Tentative Draft,"
Indiana Law Journal: Vol. 33:
Iss.
2, Article 12.
Available at:
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ilj/vol33/iss2/12