抄録
Case : 22 year-old male, a restaurant worker
At around 11p.m. on Jan. 18, 1971, the defendant began to drink sake (Japanese wine) with the victim and one other man. He drank 0.9-1.0 liter of sake within about an hour. He seemed to get very drunk. Then he stabbed the victim three times with a kitchen knife.
A few days later the victim was dead. The defendant does not remember his behavior at all.
The defendant often behaved violently when drinking. Though unusually infantile for his age, he was ordinarily gentle and introverted. His intelligence is on the boundary between normal and abnormal.
As the result of the drinking test, he was found to be pathologically intoxicated.
Thus this case of murder under the influence of alcohol was examined to induce the possibility that the defendant was morbidly drunk at the time of the offence, and his ability to be responsible while abnormally intoxicated, was discussed.
