Cite as: 22 CNCA § 925

When it is contended on behalf of the defendant in any criminal prosecution that he is at the time of the trial a lunatic, an insane person, or a person of unsound mind, the Court shall submit to the jury a proper form of verdict, and if the jury finds the defendant not guilty on account of such lunacy, insanity or unsoundness of mind, they shall so state in their verdict, and the Court shall thereupon order the defendant committed to the hospital for the insane, or other institution provided for the care and treatment of cases such as the one before the Court, until the sanity and soundness of mind of the defendant be judicially determined, and he be discharged from said institution according to law.

Historical Data

LA 10–90, eff. November 13, 1990.