State v. Washington

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning, J.

The defendant was convicted of inflicting a wound less than mayhem, and was sentenced to hard labour for one year, and was fined fifty dollars.

A bill was taken to the refusal of the judge to charge “that drunkenness does excuse crime where, in the absence of criminal intent, the condition of the accused was such that he knew not what he was doing, and intended no offence.”

The charge thus requested is erroneous as an abstract proposition of law, and if it had been correct, there is nothing to shew that it had any relevancy to the case. On…