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Legal principle stating that an accused criminal must have been suffering from a mental disease at the time he or she committed a crime and have known neither the nature and quality of the act nor that the act was wrong in order to be judged as insane. A British court decision of 1843 that stated that an insanity defense can be established by proving that the defendant did not know what he or she was doing or did not realize that it was wrong.
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