30 Dec

The mitigating circumstance of provocation is provided for in art. 62 n. 2 of the penal code and consists in "having acted in a state of anger caused by an unjust act of another person". First of all, the extenuating circumstance in speech is a very different institution from provocation, i.e. the cause of justification provided for by art. 599 comma 2 c.p. ....