Guilty While Asleep?
Automatism, Sleepwalking, and Criminal Liability: A Comparative Analysis in Indian and Scots Law Understanding the Complexities of Criminal Responsibility Consider this scenario: A person takes a prescribed sleeping pill, goes to bed, and falls asleep. Hours later, they wake up behind the wheel of a car, having driven into traffic, completely unaware of their actions. They find themselves in police custody, charged with a crime, with no memory of what happened. This situation
