Court Opinion

ID: 9663660
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:46:53.871614+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:54.643204
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Hallows, J.
(concurring). A half a loaf is better than no loaf. I concur in the concurring opinion of Mr. Justice Wilkie and reiterate the reasons in my concurring opinion in Kwosek v. State (1960), 8 Wis. (2d) 640, 100 N. W. (2d) 339, and dissenting opinion in State v. Esser (1962), 16 Wis. (2d) 567, 115 N. W. (2d) 505. While I accept the option technique as a half step *435in the right direction, I hope the dawn of a new day is not far off when M’Naghten will be recognized by this court in its historical context and understood as an outmoded and outdated expression of a test of criminal responsibility and when the court will join the ever-growing band of jurisdictions which accept the American Law Institute’s formulation of the only test for criminal responsibility in insanity cases as a realistic expression of what contemporaneous law ought to be.