Section 22-5-7 - Morbid propensity to commit crime.

22-5-7. Morbid propensity to commit crime. A morbid propensity to commit prohibited acts existing in the mind of a person who is not shown to have been incapable of knowing the wrongfulness of such acts forms no defense to a prosecution therefor.

Source: SDC 1939, § 13.0505; repealed SL 1976, ch 158, § 5-2; re-enacted SL 1977, ch 189, § 15.