WILKINS, J.
The defendant was convicted of armed assault with intent to murder and of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, a knife. At his jury trial the defendant did not deny that he had stabbed the victim. His general defense was that he lacked criminal responsibility because, at the time of the stabbing, he was experiencing a seizure caused by a mental disease known as temporal lobe epilepsy. As to the charge of armed assault with intent to murder...
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