Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index At its core, it means although the person pleading temporary insanity is not insane before the act, circumstances rendered him insane at the time he committed the bad act. For example, X comes home and finds Y in bed with her husband, goes "insane" by pulling out a gun and killing Y. See also: M'Naughten rule External links: The Temporary Insanity Defense in California This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.