People v. Williams
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District, Siskiyou County. The indictment was found and certified to the District Court before the commencement of the term at which the accused was tried. The fifteenth instruction, referred to in the opinion, was as follows: “ It is a well settled rule of law that drunkenness is no excuse for the commission of a crime.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District, Siskiyou County. The indictment was found and certified to the District Court before the commencement of the term at which the accused was tried. The fifteenth instruction, referred to in the opinion, was as follows: “ It is a well settled rule of law that drunkenness is no excuse for the commission of a crime. Insanity, produced by intoxication, does not destroy responsibility, when the party, when sane and responsible, made himself voluntarily intoxicated; and drunkenness forms no defense whatever to the fact of guilt, for when…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Wallace, C. J.:
The prisoner having been convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree in taking the life of John Todhunter, and adjudged to suffer death, brings this appeal:
1. The first error relied upon is the refusal of the Court to continue the case upon affidavit filed. ' This affidavit of the prisoner sets forth that he expected to prove by the absent witness, Clay Todhunter, a son of the deceased, that two or three days before the homicide the witness and the deceased visited the house of the prisoner, situated in a secluded place, and there met the prisoner, and…
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