BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY
HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND VICTIMOLOGY
Project: Research on Insanity Defense in the Philippines (Case Digest)
Name of Student: Erika M. Lapitan
Instructor: DR. Fredda H. Ebanada
PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, VS. JESSIE HALOC
Y CODON, ACCUSED-APPELLANT
G.R. No. 227312, September 05, 2018
FACTS:
On June 22, 2008, at around noon, the accused Jessie Haloc y Codon fifty-one
(51) years old was drunk and get mad at his neighbor who was being noisy. He went to
the house of Dela Cruz's with a 24-Inch bolo and attempted to strike Ambrosio, the
father, who was able to escape. Unfortunately, Ambrosio's five (5) sons were following
him. Jessie took his ire on Ambrosio's children, hacking Allan on the arm and taking
Arnel and cutting his neck, severing his jugular veins, and nearly decapitating his head
resulting in Arnel's immediate death.
ISSUES:
Whether or not the accused-appellant established the benefit of the exempting
circumstances of insanity.
RULING :
Based on the foregoing, the accused-appellant did not establish the exempting
circumstance of insanity. His mental condition at the time of the commission of the
felonies he was charged with and found guilty of was not shown to be so severe that it
had completely deprived him of reason or intelligence when he committed the felonies
charged. Based on the records, he had been administered medication to cure his mental
illness, but there was no showing that he suffered from complete deprivation of
intelligence. On the contrary, the medical professionals presented during the trial
conceded that he had been treated only to control his mental condition.
Based on the case the psychodynamic perspective is being mentally weak, problematic,
and drunk at that time that he lost his mind causing to attack the Dela Cruz family in the
psychotherapeutic community there is a growing number of opinions about the need for a
psychodynamic treatment of alcohol addiction. He being drunk and lost that cause of the
crime that he did not intend. It seems that psychodynamic concepts may constitute a
useful addition to the cognitive-behavioural approaches or to those based on motivation
reinforcement, which are methods of choice.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Heather Stuart- World Psychiatry (2003)
According to the author she used paper to evaluate the relationship between mental
illness and violence by asking three questions: Are the mentally ill violent? Are the
mentally ill at increased risk of violence? Is the public at risk? Mental disorders are
neither necessary nor sufficient causes of violence. Major determinants of violence
continue to be socio-demographic and economic factors.
Marie E. Rueve, MD and Randon S. Welton, MD, LT COL, USAF (2008)
According to the authors in society today, mental illness and violence are often seen as
inextricably linked, creating a harsh stigma for patients and, at times, an uncomfortable
environment for psychiatrists. The perception carries serious consequences for
psychiatric patients in the form of further discrimination and a sense of isolation from
society. Violence has become of increasing concern in the practice of psychiatry. A large
number of aggressive patients present to emergency departments,1 and psychiatrists are
often called on to assess and treat the violent patient.
Virginia Aldigé Hiday- International Journal of Law and Psychentry (1997)
According to the author, they conduct a paper that presents a series of models based on
empirical research that illuminate the statistical association between the two phenomena.
It begins with the most simple model showing a direct sequence of severe mental illness
producing violence, then moves to build more complexity in the relationship with
multiple paths involving socializing conditions and intervening experiences that connect
active, major mental illness to violence.
Edward P Mulvey (1994)
According to the author, the relationship between mental illness and violence is an issue
of longstanding clinical and policy importance, and recent research on this association
has sparked renewed debate. The author formulates six statements on the association that
seems warranted by recent investigations and reviews the research evidence.
