Under the __________ Rule, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he

did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong.

a. Durham
b. M’Naghten
c. ALI
d. Freeman


Answer: B

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