People v. Foren

By the Court, Currey, J.

The defendant was indicted for the murder of Tim Malony. Both the defendant and the deceased were drunk when the homicide was committed. Under our law drunkenness is no • excuse for crime, unless it he occasioned by the fraud, contrivance or force of some other person or persons for the purpose of causing the perpetration of an offense. The homicide was caused by the defendant, who used a knife from the “ cupboard,” as one witness testified, with which he stabbed the deceased in a vital part of his body, so that he died within a very short time afterward. At the trial…