Section 10Part 1 — Preliminary
Insanity
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A person is not criminally responsible for an act or omission if, at the time of doing the act or making the omission, that person is through any disease affecting that person's mind incapable of understanding what that person is doing, or of knowing that that person ought not to do the act or make the omission; but a person may be criminally responsible for an act or omission, although that person's mind is affected by disease, if such disease does not in fact produce upon that person's mind one or other of the effects above mentioned in reference to that act or omission.