Morbid propensity to commit crime.

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22-5-7. Morbid propensity to commit crime.

A morbid propensity to commit prohibited acts existing in the mind of a person who is not shown to have been incapable of knowing the wrongfulness of such acts forms no defense to a prosecution therefor.

Source: SDC 1939, §13.0505; repealed SL 1976, ch 158, §5-2; re-enacted SL 1977, ch 189, §15.


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