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    CD - 5. People Vs Bonoan

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    Celestino Bonoan is charged with murder for stabbing Carlos Guison, who died three days later. Bonoan was initially confined to a psychiatric hospital. After several months of evaluation, doctors reported Bonoan may have been "recovered". However, the lower court found Bonoan guilty, despite evidence he suffered from dementia praecox before and after the crime. The appeals court found Bonoan demented at the time of the act, exempting him from criminal liability, and ordered his confinement to a psychiatric hospital. This was based on evidence of Bonoan's prior and recurring mental illness diagnosis, symptoms leading to his crime, and examinations indicating insanity.

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    Celestino Bonoan is charged with murder for stabbing Carlos Guison, who died three days later. Bonoan was initially confined to a psychiatric hospital. After several months of evaluation, doctors reported Bonoan may have been "recovered". However, the lower court found Bonoan guilty, despite evidence he suffered from dementia praecox before and after the crime. The appeals court found Bonoan demented at the time of the act, exempting him from criminal liability, and ordered his confinement to a psychiatric hospital. This was based on evidence of Bonoan's prior and recurring mental illness diagnosis, symptoms leading to his crime, and examinations indicating insanity.

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    Celestino Bonoan is charged with murder for stabbing Carlos Guison, who died three days later. Bonoan was initially confined to a psychiatric hospital. After several months of evaluation, doctors reported Bonoan may have been "recovered". However, the lower court found Bonoan guilty, despite evidence he suffered from dementia praecox before and after the crime. The appeals court found Bonoan demented at the time of the act, exempting him from criminal liability, and ordered his confinement to a psychiatric hospital. This was based on evidence of Bonoan's prior and recurring mental illness diagnosis, symptoms leading to his crime, and examinations indicating insanity.

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    Celestino Bonoan is charged with murder for stabbing Carlos Guison, who died three days later. Bonoan was initially confined to a psychiatric hospital. After several months of evaluation, doctors reported Bonoan may have been "recovered". However, the lower court found Bonoan guilty, despite evidence he suffered from dementia praecox before and after the crime. The appeals court found Bonoan demented at the time of the act, exempting him from criminal liability, and ordered his confinement to a psychiatric hospital. This was based on evidence of Bonoan's prior and recurring mental illness diagnosis, symptoms leading to his crime, and examinations indicating insanity.

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    Facts:

    Celestino Bonoan is charged with the crime of murder for stabbing Carlos Guison with a knife, which
    caused his death three days afterwards. An arraignment was then called, but the defense objected on
    the ground that the defendant was mentally deranged and was at the time confined at the Psychopatic
    Hospital. After several months of summons for doctors, production of the defendant’s complete record
    of mental condition from the hospital and defendant’s admission to the hospital for personal
    observation, assistant alienist Dr. Jose Fernandez finally reported to the court that Bonoan may be
    discharged for being a “recovered case”. After trial, the lower court found Bonoan guilty and sentenced
    him to life imprisonment.

    The defense now appeals, claiming the lower court made errors in finding Bonoan suffered dementia
    only occasionally and intermittently, did not show any kind of abnormality, that the defense did not
    establish the defendant’s insanity and finding accused guilty.

    Procedural History:

    After trial, the lower court found the defendant guilty of the offense charged in the information above-
    quoted and sentenced him to life imprisonment, to indemnify the heirs of the deceased in the sum of
    P1,000, and to pay the costs.

     
    Judgment:

    The Court finds the accused demented at the time he perpetrated the crime, which consequently
    exempts him from criminal liability, and orders for his confinement in San Lazaro Hospital or other
    hospital for the insane. This ruling was based on the following evidence:

    1. Uncontradicted evidence that accused was confined in the insane department of San Lazaro
    Hospital and diagnosed with dementia praecox long before the commission of the offense and
    recurrence of ailments were not entirely lacking of scientific foundation
    2. Persons with dementia praecox are disqualified from legal responsibility because they have no
    control of their acts; dementia praecox symptoms similar to manic depression psychosis
    3. Accused had an insomnia attack, a symptom leading to dementia praecox, four days prior to
    act according to Dr. Francisco
    4. Accused was sent the Psychopatic hospital on the same day of crime and arrest, indicating
    the police’s doubt of his mental normalcy
    5. Defendant suffered from manic depressive psychosis according to Dr. Joson

    Application of Legal Medicine Concept in the Case:

    In order to ascertain a person's mental condition at the time of the act, it is permissible to receive
    evidence of the condition of his mind a reasonable period both before and after that time. Direct
    testimony is not required, nor are specific acts of derangement essential (People vs. Tripler, supra) to
    established insanity as a defense. Mind can only be known by outward acts. Thereby, we read the
    thoughts, the motives and emotions of a person and come to determine whether his acts conform to
    the practice of people of sound mind. To prove insanity, therefore, cicumstantial evidence, if clear and
    convincing, suffice.

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