The criminal responsibility of an accused person.

The article explores the criminal responsibility of an accused person under the Criminal Procedure Act (51 of 1977) in South Africa. Topics discussed include the conviction of an accused person, the legal rules on the use of automatism evidence, the classification of criminal incapacity due to mental illness as pathological incapacity, the defence of non-pathological incapacity due to provocation and emotion stress, and the causes of automatism.