Tennessee Statutes
§ 40-18-117 — Instructions concerning insanity
Tennessee § 40-18-117
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Bluebook
Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-18-117 (2026).
Text
In all criminal cases in which the trial judge charges the jury on the law relating to the defense of insanity, the judge shall also charge the jury that, if it should find the defendant to be not guilty by reason of insanity, that it shall so state in its verdict.
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Related
State v. Brimmer
876 S.W.2d 75 (Tennessee Supreme Court, 1994)
Legislative History
Acts 1977, ch. 228, § 1; T.C.A., § 40-2530.
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Tennessee § 40-18-117, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/tn/40-18-117.