[An analysis of criminal liability in a criminal case involving an epileptic].
This paper presents the case of an epileptic patient who killed his wife during the intermittent period of epilepsy: three different units were asked to give the forensic psychiatric appraisement which came to three different conclusions, namely, the patient should be entitled to no criminal responsibility, partial criminal responsibility, and full criminal responsibility with respect to these three conclusions, the authors make a detailed discussion and give their own opinions.
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D000328:Adult; D004832:Epilepsy, Absence / Q000523:psychology; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D007298:Insanity Defense; D008297:Male