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Caused by Intoxication or Other Similar Conditions.
(1) The provisions excluding or reducing liability to punishment
shall not apply to any person who, in order to commit a crime or
knowing that he could commit a crime, intentionally put himself
into a condition of absolute irresponsibility or of limited
responsibility by means of alcohol or drugs or any other means.
The general provisions of this Code are applicable in such a case.
(2) If a criminal by his own fault has put himself into a condition of
absolute irresponsibility or of limited responsibility while he was
aware, or could or should have been aware, that he was exposing
himself, in such a condition, to the risk of committing a crime,
he
shall be tried and punished under the ordinary provisions
governing negligence, if the crime committed is punishable on
such a charge (Art. 59).
(3) In the case of a crime which was neither contemplated nor
intended and was committed in a state of absolute
irresponsibility into which the criminal put himself by his own
fault, the provision of
Article 491 of the Special Part of this Code relating to crimes
against public safety shall apply.
(4) No person shall be liable to punishment where he commits a
crime while in a state of absolute irresponsibility, into which he
has been coerced or for which he has no fault on his part.
