Definition of Emotional Insanity
The species of mental aberration produced by a violent excitement of the emotions or passions, though the reasoning facilities may remain unimpaired. A passion, effecting for a space of time complete derangement of accused's inteUect, or an impulse, which his mind is not able to resist, to do the act. Fannon v. Commonwealth, 295 Ky. 817, 175 S.W.2d 531, 533. See Insanity.
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