People v. Walker

The defendant was convicted in the court below for the larceny of a sum of money from one Martin. All the evidence in the case tended to show that if the defendant took the money wrongfully, it was while he was under the influence of liquor, and some of it indicated that he was very drunk.. The circuit judge was requested to charge the jury, that “even if the jury should believe that defendant was intoxicated to such an extent as to make him unconscious of what he was doing at'the time of 'the commission of the alleged offense, it is no excuse for him, and they should not take it into…