State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Bourg

How courts have described this case

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• holding that expert may testify as to defendant’s mental state in an insanity case
• prohibition on diminished-capacity defenses does not “sweep in . . . defenses that have nothing to do with a claim of diminished capacity”
• “[V]oluntary manslaughter is not, precisely, a killing without malice aforethought but rather a killing „with a state of mind which, but for the presence of legally recognized mitigating circumstances, would render the killing murder.‟”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).