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2010-06-29 |
VELASCO JR., J. |
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| The change in Tibon's behavior was triggered by jealousy. He acted out of jealous rage at the thought of his wife having an affair overseas. Uncontrolled jealousy and anger are not equivalent to insanity. Nor is being despondent, as Tibon said he was when interviewed by the police. There is a vast difference between a genuinely insane person and one who has worked himself up into such a frenzy of anger that he fails to use reason or good judgment in what he does.[23] We reiterate jurisprudence which has established that only when there is a complete deprivation of intelligence at the time of the commission of the crime should the exempting circumstance of insanity be considered.[24] | |||||
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2004-03-17 |
DAVIDE JR., C.J. |
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| the vagaries of the mind can only be known by outward acts, by means of which we read the thoughts, motives, and emotions of a person, and then determine whether the acts conform to the practice of people of sound mind.[33] Insanity is evinced by a deranged and perverted condition of the mental faculties which is manifested in language and conduct.[34] However, not every aberration of the mind or mental deficiency constitutes insanity.[35] As | |||||