Intoxication - national proceedings

Cambodia

Cambodia - Criminal Code 2009 (2014) (EN/Khmer)

TITLE 2
CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

CHAPTER 2
EXCLUSION OF OR DIMINISHED CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Article 31: Absence of criminal responsibility by reason of mental disorder

A person who, at the time he or she committed an offence, was suffering from a mental disorder resulting from the consumption of alcohol, drugs, or prohibited substances, shall still be criminally responsible.

Rome Statute

Article 31 Grounds for excluding criminal responsibility

1. In addition to other grounds for excluding criminal responsibility provided for in this Statute, a person shall not be criminally responsible if, at the time of that person's conduct:

(b) The person is in a state of intoxication that destroys that person's capacity to appreciate the unlawfulness or nature of his or her conduct, or capacity to control his or her conduct to conform to the requirements of law, unless the person has become voluntarily intoxicated under such circumstances that the person knew, or disregarded the risk, that, as a result of the intoxication, he or she was likely to engage in conduct constituting a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;