Of Unsound Mind

A man was charged with breaking into a house. He had been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. Weeks before the break-in he had been discharged from a mental hospital as recovered, but his mother said he then seemed afraid of people and had hallucinations. His only defence was that he was of unsound mind at the time. A doctor testified that he was. The trial judge rejected the defence, applying the test of whether he could tell right from wrong. The question is whether that test is enough.