Bailey v. State

There was a conviction under an indictment for grand larceny. The amended record filed in this court *423disposes of the objection urged by the appellant that the record did not show the indictment to have been returned by a grand jury regularly impanneled.

An exception was taken on the trial to the giving of the following instruction: “1. It is a settled principle that voluntary drunkenness is not an excuse for a criminal act committed while the intoxication lasts, and being its immediate result. Such drunkenness is, in itself, a wrongful act, for the immediate consequences of which the law will…