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1 AGORA Int'l J. Jurid. Sci. 81 (2007)
Chronic Ethylism, Mental Disorders, Homicide - Study Presentation

handle is hein.journals/agoraijjs1 and id is 75 raw text is: CHRONIC ETHYLISM, MENTAL DISORDERS, HOMICIDE. STUDY PRESENTATION PhD Camelia Buhas - head of papers, Faculty of Medicine, Oradea PhD Gabriel Mihalache - University Lecturer Faculty of Medicine, Oradea Abstract: The study presents a recent homicidal case in which the forensic psychiatric examination made after the felony was committed, invalidated a pre-existing diagnosis which would have led to a lack ofjudgment. In fact, the murderer was a chronic alcohol addict with behavior disorders, all of these on a medium intellectual background Anyway, he was not a schizophrenic, a diagnosis he was given years before, more probablyfor a sort of social protection in his favor, so he could be hospitalized in a psychiatric institution for chronicle mentally disordered patients. This leads, once again, to the extraordinary importance and value of the forensic psychiatric examination in the law field. Key words: chronic ethylism, mental disorders, homicide The following case proves once again 2 difficult aspects that are led to the field of forensic medicine: framing one of the safety medical measures prevailed by articles no. 113 and no. 114 Criminal Code and the alcohol consumption in correlation with an already existing psychiatric disorder. B.I.M, 22 years old, has a fight with his father, both under the influence of alcohol consumption. During the fight, the son stabs the father with a knife several times in the stomach area. Due to the wounds given by the sharp object, the father dies. After the father's death, realizing his murder, B.I.M drags his father all around their courtyard and throws the dead body into a fountain in front of their house. The neighbors call the police. The policemen arrive at the crime investigation place and find the young man in his bad, sleeping. Just moments after he wakes up, the young man tell the policemen that he is a mentally disordered person. He admits that he was several times hospitalized in the Psychiatric Institution for Mental Disordered Patients from Oradea and also at the Hospital from Nucet, where he got the diagnosis of schizophrenia. More than that, he possesses a medical record that proves the fact that he is a handicapped person with a schizophrenia diagnosis. He is urgently taken and hospitalized in the Hospital from Stei and then, a week later, a forensic psychiatric examination is made at the Psychiatric Institution for Mental Disordered Persons from Oradea. From the description of the lesions on the father's dead body, we can suppose the aggressor's way of manifestation. The body presented numerous bruises on the hairy areas of the head, on the face, arms, forearms and chest. The

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