Melton v. State

Appellant was indicted upon a charge of murder, and was convicted of manslaughter. The commission of the homicide by appellant is admitted by him; that it was unprovoked and was without any soft of excuse or justi fication is also admitted, except that he says he was in snch a state of complete intoxication at the time as to be utterly destitute of reason and wholly incapable, as he contends, of the essential specific intent.

At an early day in this state, in Kelly v. State, 3 Smedes & M. (11 Miss.) 518, it was held that, in a prosecution for homicide, voluntary intoxication of the accused is…