criminal capacity

The mental ability that a person must possess to be held accountable for a crime; the ability to understand right from wrong. See INSANITY; INFANCY. [Cases: Criminal Law 46; Homicide 815. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 96–98, 113.]

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