State v. Pike

State v. Pike, 49 N.h. 399 (1869), is a criminal case which articulated a product test for an insanity defense.[1] The court in Durham v. United States used it as the basis for what came to be known as the Durham rule.[1]

References
  1. Insanity, 2 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 736-40 (1983); Abraham Goldstein
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