The term 'unsound mind,' when used in any statute in reference to persons, shall include persons with an intellectual disability, persons with mental illness, and persons non compos mentis.Codes, 1892, § 1518; 1906, § 1599; Hemingway's 1917, § 1366; 1930, § 1390; 1942, § 698; Laws, 2008, ch. 442, § 1; Laws, 2010, ch. 476, § 2, eff. 4/1, 2010.
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