Chronic ethylism, mental disorders, homicide. Study presentation

• Author: Camelia Buhas - Gabriel Mihalache
• Position: PhD. Head of papers, Faculty of Medicine, Oradea - PhD, University Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Oradea
• Pages: 81-83

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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 of judgment. 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 probably for 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