New psychiatric assessment and insanity exclude punishment

BGE 88 IV 10Raccolta ufficiale del Tribunale federale (DTF) / Volume IV8 feb 1962

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The Federal Court stated that a new psychiatric evaluation had to be examined because the defendant's responsibility was relevant both to sentencing and to possible detention. It added that if full insanity were established, punishment and detention under Art. 42 StGB would be excluded, leaving only measures under Arts. 14 or 15 StGB. The excerpt also notes that a contrary wording in an earlier Federal Court judgment was due to an error and must be corrected.

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Art. 13 StGB; assessment of criminal responsibility and consequences of full insanity; where the extent of responsibility is unclear, a new psychiatric expert opinion must be considered. Full incapacity of responsibility excludes punishment under Art. 10 StGB and also preventive detention under Art. 42 StGB; in that event only protective measures under Arts. 14 or 15 StGB come into consideration. An earlier divergent formulation in a published judgment was a clerical error and must be corrected.

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Urteilskopf

88 IV 10

Auszug aus dem Urteil des Kassationshofes vom 8. Februar 1962 i.S. Schwendimann gegen Staatsanwaltschaft des Kantons Aargau.

Erwägungen

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Aus den Erwägungen:

Vorab stellt sich sowohl im Hinblick auf die Strafe wie auf die Verwahrung die Frage einer neuen psychiatrischen Begutachtung (Art. 13 StGB). Bei völliger Unzurechnungsfähigkeit, die allerdings wenig wahrscheinlich ist, wäre der Beschwerdeführer nicht strafbar (Art. 10 StGB), und das würde auch seine Verwahrung nach Art. 42 StGB ausschliessen. In Betracht käme diesfalls nur eine Massnahme nach Art. 14 oder 15 StGB. Die anderslautende Fassung des Urteils des Kassationshofes vom 23. Dezember 1960 i.S. Trachsler, veröffentlicht in BGE 86 IV 204, beruht auf einem Versehen und ist zu berichtigen.

Parole chiave

psychiatric assessmentcriminal responsibilityinsanitypreventive detentionprotective measurescorrection

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Questione giuridica chiave

Whether a new psychiatric assessment was required under Art. 13 StGB in view of punishment and preventive detention.

Decisione estratta

A fresh psychiatric assessment had to be considered because the extent of criminal responsibility was decisive both for punishment and for detention.

Motivazione estratta

If the accused were wholly incapable of responsibility, he would not be punishable under Art. 10 StGB and preventive detention under Art. 42 StGB would also be excluded; only measures under Art. 14 or Art. 15 StGB would then come into question.

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