TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 2

PERSONS LIABLE, PRINCIPALS AND ACCESSORIES

18-210.  Lack of capacity to understand proceedings — Delay of trial. No person who as a result of mental disease or defect lacks capacity to understand the proceedings against him or to assist in his own defense shall be tried, convicted, sentenced or punished for the commission of an offense so long as such incapacity endures.

History:

[I.C., sec. 18-210, as added by 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 851.]