Uncontrollable impulse
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Same as Irresistible impulse.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
As an excuse for the commission of an act otherwise criminal, this term means an Impulse towards its commission of such fixity and intensity that it cannot be resisted by the person subject to it, in the ehfeebled condition of his will and moral sense resulting from derangement or mania. See Insanity. And see State v. O'Neil, 51 Kan. 651, 33 Pac. 287, 24 In R. A. 555.