Abberatio Ictus

Abberatio ictus is a so-called pervert in criminal law. An example from Prof. Waszczyński’s manual: “John shoots Peter with the intention of killing him, but he misses, but the bullet bounces off the rock and the rhaming hits Paul, who dies from his wound.” This is a situation where the offender intends to commit something wrong, but as a result of perverting the course of action (abberatio ictus) it has a different effect, also prohibited by law. And then there are a lot of interesting questions: how to qualify the act, which is that John wanted to kill Peter and killed Paul: whether it was the murder of Paul, whether it was the attempted murder of Peter, or the manslaughter of Paul.

In law studies, however, it is not enough to give examples. Examples are rather created from the hand and in the type: “imagine that the dog has a bowl” or “imagine that the dog has a finger”. In the exam it is not enough to say: a square plus b square equals c square. It must be said: The sum of the squares located on the rectangular rectangular triangle equals the field of the square located on the oppositeprostangular. Whoever can’t do it has problems. A colleague, with whom I passed the exam with Prof. Waszyński, was able to give an example, but not a definition of abberatio ictus. Then it fell on me.