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State v. Pike

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United States criminal case

State v. Pike, 49 N.H. 399 (1870), is a criminal case which articulated a product test for an insanity defense. The court in Durham v. United States used it as the basis for what came to be known as the Durham rule.

References

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

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