BOOK I
General provisions on felonies and misdemeanours, the persons responsible, the penalties, security measures and other consequences of criminal offences

TITLE I
On felonies and misdemeanours

CHAPTER II
On the causes of exclusion from criminal accountability

Article 20

The following persons shall not be criminally accountable :

2. Whoever, at the time of committing a felony or misdemeanour, is in a state of absolute intoxication due to consumption of alcoholic beverages, toxic and narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or others that cause similar effects, as long as such state have not been sought for the purpose of committing it, or when he would or should have foreseen that it would be committed, or when under the influence of a withdrawal syndrome, due to his dependence on such substances, that prevents him from comprehending the unlawfulness of the act, or acting in keeping with such comprehension.