New Taipei man Zhou Jingqian was dissatisfied with being called a "drinker" and stabbed his friend to death four times. The High Court sentenced him to 14 years in prison for homicide in the first instance.

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[Reporter Yang Guowen/Taipei Report] Zhou Jingqian, a man from New Taipei, suspected that his friends surnamed Xu were saying bad things about him, such as "loves to be drunk" and "wine empty". He stabbed Xu Nan in the chest 4 times. After the murder, he surrendered with a knife. Xu Nan was sent to the hospital and died. Although the high court found that Zhou met the commutation regulations for surrendering, it rebuked Zhou for planning to kill in the street, which seriously affected the public security. Today, he is sentenced to 14 years in prison for murder. , deprived of public power for 7 years, and can appeal.

44-year-old Zhou Jingqian (in custody) works in a plastics factory in Xinzhuang District. Xu Nan runs a rubber company opposite the factory and met at a dinner party.

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The judgment pointed out that Zhou Nan learned from his friends that Xu Nan had said bad things about him behind his back, referring to him as "Jiu Kong (Taiwanese, meaning to drink until stupid)", "loves to be drunk and crazy" and other bad words, and held a grudge.

At 4 pm on November 16 of the previous year, Zhou Nan was ambushed at the gate of the plastic factory. When Xu Nan got off work and was about to leave on a motorcycle, Zhou Nan rushed forward and punched Xu Nan, causing the other car to fall to the ground. Xu Nan shouted in surprise, "We I don't know!"

Zhou Nan didn't stop, then took out a meat cleaver from the locomotive and stabbed Xu Nan's chin, right chest, two stabs in his left upper arm, and cut off the aorta to spurt blood. Xu Nan was seriously injured and fell in a pool of blood.

Zhou Nan saw that Xu Nan was bleeding and could not get up. He did not help him. He rode a motorcycle with a knife and turned himself in to the Xinzhuang Police Station, "I killed someone!" Still not cured.

Zhou Nan pleaded guilty, arguing that he had only a nod of acquaintance with Xu Nan. He was very angry when he heard that Xu Nan told others that he was a "drinker" and a "crazy drunk". He planned to teach Xu Nan a lesson on the day of the incident, but Xu Nan said If you don't know him, let him lose control of his emotions, and then assassinate him to vent his hatred.

During the investigation, the prosecution sent Zhou Nan to the appraisal and believed that although Zhou had been drinking heavily for a long time, he would have auditory hallucinations due to alcohol poisoning, but he did not drink alcohol at the time of the murder. Charged with murder.

The Xinbei District Court found that Zhou Nan met the conditions for commutation of his sentence by surrendering himself, and sentenced him to 13 years in prison and seven years of deprivation of public power.

Both the prosecution and Zhou Nan refused to accept the verdict and filed an appeal. Zhou Nan expressed regret and was willing to compensate the victim's family, hoping to enter the reparative judicial process.

The High Court held that since the incident of Zhou Nan's case, there has been no compensation for the family members of the victim. In addition, it is difficult for the family members to heal the pain, and they have not been able to carry out reparative judicial procedures. Considering that Zhou Nan deliberately killed people in the street, it seriously affected the public order, and did not compensate the victim. In the first instance, the 13-year sentence was too light, and the aggravated sentence was commuted to 14 years in prison and seven years of deprivation of public power.

Appealable.

After the appeal, the Supreme Court withdrew the case back to the High Court for a first instance.

The Supreme Court sentenced Zhou to 14 years in prison and seven years of deprivation of public power.

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