46-14-103. Mental disease or defect or developmental disability excluding fitness to proceed. - Montana Statutes

     46-14-103. Mental disease or defect or developmental disability excluding fitness to proceed. A person who, as a result of mental disease or defect or developmental disability, is unable to understand the proceedings against the person or to assist in the person's own defense may not be tried, convicted, or sentenced for the commission of an offense so long as the incapacity endures.

     History: En. 95-504 by Sec. 1, Ch. 196, L. 1967; R.C.M. 1947, 95-504; amd. Sec. 151, Ch. 800, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 452, L. 2003.