State v. Logner

Defendant contends (1)' that his intoxication on November 18th and 19th rendered any statements he may have made to the officers involuntary; and (2) that, if the officers advised him of his constitutional rights, his intoxicated condition made such advice entirely ineffectual.

This Court has considered a defendant’s plea of drunkenness as a bar to the admissibility of his confession in the following cases: State v. Painter, 265 N.C. 277, 144 S.E. 2d 6; State v. Stephens, 262 N.C. 45, 136 S.E. 2d 209; State v. Isom, 243 N.C. 164, 90 S.E. 2d 237, 69 A.L.R. 2d 358. From them this rule emerges:…