Citation

Moriani S, Cecchi R, Cipolloni L. Int. J. Legal Med. 1996; 108(4): 219-220.

Affiliation

Istituto di Medicina Legale e delle Assicurazioni, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8652429

Abstract

A case of suicide by harakiri is described. The position of the subject, the absence of the shirt and the abdominal L-shape cut agreed well with the formal procedure of harakiri. The characteristics of the stab wounds present on the right-hand side of the neck confirmed the assumption of self-infliction and excluded, from a legal point of view, murder by consent.

Language: en