If a patient escapes from a mental hospital and commits a murder,according to the M'Naghten rule,will this person be not guilty by reason of insanity?

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If a patient escapes from a mental hospital and commits a murder,according to the M'Naghten rule,will this person be not guilty by reason of insanity?​

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The M'Naghten rule states that a person is considered legally insane if, at the time of committing the act, they were laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act they were doing, or if they did know it, that they did not know what they were doing was wrong. This aligns with choice A, which mentions the act being committed without understanding what was happening.

If a Patient Escapes from a Mental Hospital and Commits