PART IV

GENERAL RULES AS TO CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Insanity
12. Subject to the express provisions of this Code and of any other law in force a person shall not be criminally responsible for an act or omission if at the time of doing the act or making
the omission he is through any disease affecting his mind incapable of understanding what he is doing or of knowing that he ought not to do the act or make the omission:

Provided that a person may be criminally responsible for an act or omission, although his mind is affected by disease, if such disease does not in fact produce upon his mind one or other of the effects above mentioned in reference to that act or omission.

PART IV
GENERAL RULES AS TO CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Intoxication

13. (2) Intoxication shall be a defence to any criminal charge if by reason thereof the person charged at the time of the act or omission complained of did not know that such act or omission was wrong or did not know what he was doing and

(b) the person charged was by reason of intoxication insane, temporarily or otherwise, at the time of such act or omission.