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Thursday, February 18, 2016
Complete Madness
February 19 is...
Temporary Insanity Day
NO! I am not kidding! Actually, that's how the day made the calendar. February 19 is the first day a plea of temporary insanity was accepted as a plea in court.
"Complete madness" was first established as a defense to criminal
charges by the common-law courts in late-thirteenth-century England. By
the eighteenth century, the complete madness definition had evolved into
the "wild beast" test. Under that test, the insanity defense was
available to a person who was "totally deprived of his understanding and
memory so as not to know what he [was] doing, no more than an infant, a
brute, or a wild beast" (Feigl 1995, 161).
Of course, our celebration of Temporary Insanity Day hopefully will NOT result in any acts of violence. Let's make this day fun with crazy antics that just simply make others smile and laugh! There are many degrees of insanity...
"Complete madness" was first established as a defense to criminal charges by the common-law courts in late-thirteenth-century England. By the eighteenth century, the complete madness definition had evolved into the "wild beast" test. Under that test, the insanity defense was available to a person who was "totally deprived of his understanding and memory so as not to know what he [was] doing, no more than an infant, a brute, or a wild beast" (Feigl 1995, 161).
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