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Show LEGAL INSANITY. Should "Uncontrollable Impulse" Eu Criminal Conviction? The New YorK aw Journal recently contained &n editorial articlo favoring a modification of the test of insanity ic criminal cases. Tho ability to distinguish distin-guish between right and wrong in reference ref-erence to the not committed and to know that it was wrong is a standard of mental capacity required in New York to render a person responsible fcr crimes committed by him. The Law Journal argues in favor of grading punishment according to the mental condition of offenders who may be "partially insane." Many alienists, Including Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton, do not recognize "rrrtiai insanity," saying that a person is either sane oi insane. Tho state in which the mind acts correctly as to its judgment, but the -will is controlled by some implnse which the niinfl cannot master, is not recognized in many criminal courts, because it has been found that the excuse ex-cuse of irre-jistible impulse led to tos great a number of acquittals in cases where defendants were really guilty of serious offences. In civil cases it is easier to deal with persons whose minds are so affected that they cannot come to correct con elusions as to certain subjects. The is nes at stake are frequently less impor tant, and it is possible to learn whethei a particular act was done under the in fluence of the delusion or mental weak nesB which affects tho person concerned |