non compos mentis
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When you watch it, you can see quite clearly, with the benefit of hindsight, that he is non compos mentis.
From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2010
In London, a coroner found that the late Sidney Corrall, acquisitive but non compos mentis, had swallowed and kept all to himself 201 pennies, florins, shillings, halfpennies, sixpences, half crowns, and threepenny bits.
From Time Magazine Archive
If anyone proposes another match race between these two super horses,” wrote a reporter after the race, “henceforth, he will be tried in the morning for treason, mutiny, mopery and non compos mentis.'''’
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Some people shammed away this confession, and said he was non compos mentis; and had a mind, it seems, to assume the glory of being hanged for the greatest villain.
From An Historical Narrative of the Great and Terrible Fire of London, Sept. 2nd 1666 by Harvey, Gideon
I might have proved myself non compos mentis; but that involved my making a fool of myself in public before a jury, and I have too much dignity for that, I can tell you.
From The Water Ghost and Others by Bangs, John Kendrick
